gen z stare
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When Valerie Jefferson, 23, posted a video about the “Gen Z stare” on TikTok, she did not expect it to start a fight. Her video, which documented one interpretation of the meaning of the stare — the blank look of someone in a service job who is handling frustrating requests from a customer — unleashed a torrent of intergenerational debates."
- "When professor Jessica Maddox asks her University of Alabama students a question in class, she is sometimes met with deadpan looks from the Gen Zers in the room. / The look has become so prevalent that Maddox occasionally resorts to begging her students for a response. It was only recently that she learned this behavior had a name: the “Gen Z stare.""
- "The Gen Z stare is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a term used to describe the vacant look a Gen Zer gives in response to a question or statement. The phrase has caught fire online and sparked conversation about why younger adults do this."