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intergenerational

intergenerational adjective: between or across generations.

Adjective

intergenerational (not comparable)

  1. Between or across generations.
    • intergenerational justice
    • In nearly 300 pages, the book delves into the history of white supremacy and racist systems that have led to intergenerational Black fatigue.2021 May 19, Donna M. Owens, “Microaggressions and straight-up racism are exhausting Black people”, in Racial Reckoning, NBC News, retrieved 05 May 2025

Examples of intergenerational in a sentence

  • Like most Indigenous families, they have felt the intergenerational impacts of these actions.
  • Interventions that address this cycle of intergenerational inequities should be prioritised.
  • We knew that the direct and indirect schemes of the DIA, its thick bozone, had created our intergenerational catastrophes.

All 10 example sentences with intergenerational

Origin of intergenerational

From inter- + generation + -al.

Words formed from intergenerational

Questions about intergenerational

What does intergenerational mean?
Intergenerational means between or across generations.
What part of speech is intergenerational?
Intergenerational is an adjective.

Words near intergenerational in the dictionary

  1. intergender
  2. intergendered
  3. intergenders
  4. intergene
  5. intergeneration
  6. intergenerational
  7. intergenerationality
  8. intergenerationally
  9. intergeneric
  10. intergenetic
  11. intergenic

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