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Meaning of juvenophilia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

An admiration for or obsession with young people.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“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 Time magazine’s celebration of Americans 25 or younger as 1967’s “Man of the Year”[?]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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