juvenophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Those who prohibit students from getting involved in the political process are simply suffering from “juvenophobia”. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a neologism that I coined to refer to a sickness that prevents some adults from associating with young people, to open up a sincere and frank dialogue with them and to seek to improve their education."
- "Fortunately, the intergenerational problem in Russian society today is not yet antagonistic, and such conflicts are not accompanied by deformations of relations such as gerontophobia or juvenophobia."
- "In a sense, this conclusion echoes the ‘juvenophobia’ of the Soviet regime, which was expressed in either direct suppression of youth culture or in its covert control (Kretzschmar, 1994)."
Etymology
From juveno- + -phobia.