juvenophilia
juvenophilia noun: an admiration for or obsession with young people.
Noun
juvenophilia (uncountable)
- An admiration for or obsession with young people.
- Do we need another waist-deep wallow in the 1960s, ensconcing us cheek by jowl with Frank Rizzo and Eldridge Cleaver, Sam Yorty and Mark Rudd, Lester Maddox and Herbert Marcuse and other long-forgotten bit players in a period drama? Do we need to be reminded of that era’s gaseous juvenophilia, like...2008 May 11, George F. Will, “Bring Us Apart” (review of Nixonland by Rick Perlstein), in The New York Times
Origin of juvenophilia
From juveno- + -philia.
Questions about juvenophilia
- What does juvenophilia mean?
- Juvenophilia means an admiration for or obsession with young people.
- What part of speech is juvenophilia?
- Juvenophilia is a noun.
Words near juvenophilia in the dictionary
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