Intergenerational

adj

adj ·7 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Between or across generations. not-comparable

    "intergenerational justice"

Example

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"In Bali, the intergenerational forgetting of names is institutionalized. A woman will be known by her given name to peers. When she bears a son, the boy's age-mates will refer to her as "the mother of so-and-so.""

Etymology

From inter- + generation + -al.

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