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genophilia

noun

  1. Love of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race.

    rare, uncountable

    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.

  2. Love of children, or a desire to have children.

    rare, uncountable

    The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love of children, should have got his wife with child.

Where it comes from

Apparently coined by Sir Francis Galton, from geno- + -philia.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry genophilia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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