Meanings
- rareuncountableAn aversion or hatred towards young people.
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).
2004 April, Tat’iana Barchunova, Natal’ia Beletskaia, “Without fear and reproach: the role-playing games community as a challenge to mainstream culture”, in Sibirica, volume 4, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1192 more examples
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.
1992 Summer, René Philombé, translated by Ahmed Sheikh Bangura, ALA Bulletin, volume 18, number 3, African Literature Association, page 29Fortunately, 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.
2004 February, V.T. Lisovskii, “For a Dialogue on Relations Between the Generations”, in Russian Education and Society, volume 46, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 56
Origin
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