Fogeydom

//ˈfəʊɡidəm// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a fogey. uncountable

    "The latent fogeydom never goes away entirely: contemporary or modern architecture, derided as ‘childish’, ‘infantile’ or plain ‘ugly’, is consistently and erroneously elided with postwar cheap tower-block brutalism and the destruction of town centres."

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"The latent fogeydom never goes away entirely: contemporary or modern architecture, derided as ‘childish’, ‘infantile’ or plain ‘ugly’, is consistently and erroneously elided with postwar cheap tower-block brutalism and the destruction of town centres."

Etymology

From fogey + -dom.

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