Noun: "the abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old"
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- 2009, Magdalena Ball, "Rock Cycle", in The Battered Suitcase, Volume 2, Issue 2, Autumn 2009, page 130:
- Hands and knees amongst the rocks
- licking the lithosphere
- petrology driving your hunger
- gerascophobia your desire
- 2012, Brittany Goltry, "Prevent, Reverse, & Defy: Ageism in Magazine Advertisements", thesis submitted to Carroll College, page 1:
- Thus, from gerascophobia to ageism, Euro-American society today has an overall negative view of aging.
- 2013, Claire Fitzpatrick, The Ostracism of Ophelia, Lulu.com (2013), →ISBN, page 327:
- […] and Aprella, a freckled girl with straight strawberry blonde hair who had been diagnosed with gerascophobia.
- 2014, Laurencia Perales-Blum, Myrthala Juárez-Treviño, & Daniela Escobedo-Belloc, "Severe Growing-Up Phobia, a Condition Explained in a 14-Year-Old Boy", Case Reports in Psychiatry:
- Few cases of gerascophobia have been reported.