Improvement Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Improvement Information and Meaning
- Couéism
- a method of self-help stressing autosuggestion, introduced into America about 1920 by the French psychotherapist Emile Coué and featuring the slogan “Every day in every way I am getting better and better.”
- eugenics
- the science of improving a breed or species through the careful selection of parents. —eugenicist, n. —eugenic, adj.
- euthenics
- the art or science of improving a race or breed, especially the human race, by control of external influences, as environment. Cf. eugenics. —euthenist, n.
- meliorism
- the doctrine that the world tends to get better or may be made better by human effort. —meliorist, n., adj. —melioristic, adj.
- telesia, telesis
- the harnessing of natural and social forces for a beneficial goal.