‖ cacogenesis
(kækəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs)
[mod.L. f. caco- + Gr. γένεσις origin, birth.]
Morbid or depraved formation; a monstrosity, a morbid pathological product. Also transf.
| 1880 in Syd. Soc. Lex. 1895 A. H. Keane Ethnology ix. 200 From this ‘kako⁓genesis’ of speech taken in connection with the ‘eugenesis’ of races, there follow some important inferences. |