Meanings
- rareuncountableLove of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race.
Although cultural Marxists have tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia.
2007 September 11, MFOgilvie, “Genocide Against Westerners”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet)3 more examples
Some critics have maintained that (unlike modern nationalism, which is a creation of the 19th century nation state) authentic nationalism (as the Latin 'natio' would suggest) must be based in some form of genophilia and the sharing of ancestors in which sense The Vatican does not qualify as a nation-state since membership of Catholicism are scattered all over the world with no possible ties of ancestry pedigree.
2013, James Ohwofasa Akpeninor, Merger Politics of Nigeria and Surge of Sectarian Violence, →ISBN, page 317Neocons celebrate this Marxist notion of a 'propositional nation,' because it removes the historic prerequisites of nationhood: borders, a common language, history and genealogy, blood and soil, kith and kin, and genophilia (instinctive attachment to family and tribe)
2013 May, Moisés Damián Perales Escudero, “Teaching intercultural awareness in the English as a foreign language classroom: a case study using critical reading”, in Intercultural EducationThere are certain ethnic groups who choose to form relatively exclusive communities based on their race. Most Australians are even OK with this. However, there are some who do not extend the freedom to express genophilia to white Australians.
2016 January 25, “Open Drum: Blood on the Southern Cross”, in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) News - rareuncountableLove of children, or a desire to have children.
The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love of children, should have got his wife with child.
1950, The Manchester Guardian Weekly - Volume 63, page 1712 more examples
There is a suggestion that the relationship between the fertility of the women and of their parents is closer in the group practising contraception (where perhaps genetic and nurtural factors for genophilia come into play).
1953, “The Inheritance of Fertility”, in Eugenics Review, page 75Analyzing the scale "genophilia-genophobia", it should be mentioned that the vast majority of women surveyed had imagination of genophilia type (35 women - 97.2%).
2016, EA Andriyanova, IY Aranovich, AV Katkova, EV Chernyshkova, “Targets for psychocorrectional work with pregnant women with a confirmed diagnosis of miscarriage”, in International Annual Edition of Applied Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice
Synonyms & antonyms
antonym(s) of “desire to have children”
Origin
Apparently coined by Sir Francis Galton, from geno- + -philia.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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