What is another word for generational?

Pronunciation: [d͡ʒˌɛnəɹˈe͡ɪʃənə͡l] (IPA)

Generational is a term used to describe things that relate to or affect a particular generation. Synonyms for the word generational include age-related, chronological, epochal, contemporary, and temporal. Age-related refers to things that are specific to a certain age group, while chronological pertains to the order in which something occurs over time. Epochal refers to something that marks a significant period in history or a change of era. Contemporary is used to describe things that are happening at the present time, and temporal deals with the passing of time and the temporary nature of things. All of these words can be used interchangeably with the term generational.

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  • Reverse Entailment

    • Adjective
      multigenerational, inter-generational, cross-generational.
  • Independent

Usage examples for Generational

This structure is "horizontal" or generational in character and has little depth.
"Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society"
Robert F. Murphy Yolanda Murphy
"A generational difference," he suggested.
"Joe Burke's Last Stand"
John Moncure Wetterau

Famous quotes with Generational

  • And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
    Joan Collins
  • Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
    Ronnie James Dio
  • Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
    Rahm Emanuel
  • I recently researched my family tree, and quite quickly labels of class are smudged into nonsense. For a couple of generations back, it’s all very proletariat in every direction—Bethnal Green bottle-makers and jobs that belong in Dickens. But with the generational doubling that occurs, before too long it’s a muddle of all manner of colliding types: scullery maids and sculptors, officers and gentlemen.
    Russell Brand
  • The vitality of children is clean and honest. Their petty shortcomings derive, in ninety-nine out of a hundred instances, from their effete elders’ pettiness. Contagion is a generational fact. But children can develop defenses against their elders’ spiritual scurvy simply because they’re new.
    Michael Bishop

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