millennial pause
/mɪˈlɛniəl ˌpɔːz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A brief pause by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s).
noun
Alternative letter-case form of millennial pause.
Example Sentences
- "Apparently, I'm still guilty of the "Millennial pause." After hitting "Record," I wait a split second before I start speaking, just to make sure that TikTok is actually recording."
- "Ekin-Su doesn't flatten herself to widen her appeal to audiences. It's even more obvious, now that she's out of the villa, that she had minimal IG career aspirations going in — she and Davide both are endearingly bad at social media (check Ekin's IG Story and you're likely to find millennial pauses, the comic sans font, and 2012-style selfie angles)."
- "As Millennials overtake Boomers as the most embarrassing generation — the most recent focus of slagging by the younger Gen Z is the “Millennial pause”, which is that excruciating two seconds that pass in a smartphone video while a thirtysomething is checking to make sure they’re recording themselves — I’m reminded of the phrase “adulting”."
- "From embarrassing Millennial poses to the dreaded Millennial pause, and even just the simple boundaries you put (or don't, in my case) around apps like Instagram, there's plenty I do wrong on a weekly, or even daily basis."
- "As the mannerism is somewhat exclusive to those born in and around the 2000s, it's being cast as this generation’s Millennial pause."