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gerontophobia
noun
Abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old; gerascophobia
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In my book, How to Age, I suggest that the two main ways in which ageing is represented are actually aspects of the same gerontophobia, the dread of growing old and hostility to old people.
Gerontophobia- Fear of old people.
On some subjects – they range from Blair to Y-fronts, impertinence to gerontophobia – Paxman seems to have little significant to say, and tonally, it's all over the place.
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