Meanings
comparative more juvenocratic · superlative most juvenocratic
- Of or relating to juvenocracy.
Without excesses or defects, they combine the valuable qualities of youth and old age. The mind at the age of forty-five was Aristotle’s happiest mean. It was then, as we would say today, most free from ideology, of either the juvenocratic or gerontocratic kind.
1969, Lewis Samuel Feuer, The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements, New York, N.Y: Basic Books, Inc., →LCCN, pages 29–30
Origin
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