juvenophilia

English

Etymology

From juveno- +‎ -philia.

Noun

juvenophilia (uncountable)

1. (rare) An admiration for or obsession with young people.

   Coordinate terms: juvenophobia, gerontophilia

   • 2008 May 11, George F. Will, “Bring Us Apart” (review of Nixonland by Rick Perlstein), in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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”[?]