Meaning of age fright | Babel Free

Definitions

The fear of getting older.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Suggest a sermon or presentation on an appropriate topic such as "Accept Your Age,” or “Overcoming Age Fright."”

“In terms of onstage creative work, I'm working on an autobiographical piece called Age Fright, which parallels age fright and stage fright and is part of my larger research project looking at ageing, intimacy and fear.”

“He looked at the mirror - the sight made him grin, It could not be clearer...age-fright was no sin.”

“I developed Getting On, a back stage tour, a workshop guide for dealing with elders on issues of ‘agefright’ created in collaboration with Leslie Hill and Helen Paris at Stanford University.”

“I don't know if this is incurable stage fright, or age fright!”

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