Meanings
- uncountableThe abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.
Few cases of gerascophobia have been reported.
2014, Laurencia Perales-Blum, Myrthala Juárez-Treviño, Daniela Escobedo-Belloc, “Severe Growing-Up Phobia, a Condition Explained in a 14-Year-Old Boy”, in Case Reports in Psychiatry2 more examples
Thus, from gerascophobia to ageism, Euro-American society today has an overall negative view of aging.
2012, Brittany Goltry, "Prevent, Reverse, & Defy: Ageism in Magazine Advertisements", thesis submitted to Carroll College, page 1[…] and Aprella, a freckled girl with straight strawberry blonde hair who had been diagnosed with gerascophobia.
2013, Claire Fitzpatrick, The Ostracism of Ophelia, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 327Synonyms: age fright, gerontophobia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.
Translations
French gérascophobie
- gérascophobiefear of aging or growing old.
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