KeithLyons

KeithLyons commented on the list lost-for-word

Hi, Wordplayer left a comment on your profile:

"Maybe the word you're looking for is gerontophobia. It means "fear of the elderly" and this fear can quickly lead to rejection."

No.
This isn't what is meant by "rejecting the old".
You're talking about rejecting old people, fear of the aged.
While "rejecting the old" is a wider, richer, more generous term.
"Rejecting the old" can mean rejecting a style from the 1990s, can mean rejecting an old word, can mean rejecting anything that's aged; not merely human.

For example, in the USA for a long time there has been the tendency to rip down the old stuff -- like Grand Central station in NYCity, like the early 60s attempt to flood the whole Grand Canyon -- and make something new. Because what's old doesn't make it. It's the new, the next good thing pushing into the future, the latest model, the perennial faith in progress, in improvement, in youth & modernization, that counts.

No?

This is what I'm after for a word that entails “rejecting the old”.

Possible?

Thank you!

Keith Lyons.

Possible?

So where is the word for "rejecting the old"?
thank you!
Keith Lyons.

Mar 4, 2012

KeithLyons commented on the word rejecting the old

Dear All at Wordnik:

Does anyone know of one word which means "rejecting the old"?

By this phrase is meant rejecting all -- or a specific thing -- that comes before the present.
Thus by "rejecting the old" one rejects history, or a previous style, customs or habits .

Regarding subject matter "rejecting the old" is not targeting senescence or gerontology , nor "modernism", nor the subject of "ageism".
The phrase (word-?-) "rejecting the old" is both more generous & specific.

But is there one word for "rejecting the old"?

Thank you!
-- Keith Lyons

Mar 2, 2012

KeithLyons commented on the word role exits

Dear All at Wordnik:
What does the sociological, psychological term "role exit" mean?
Thank you.
-- Keith Lyons

Mar 2, 2012

KeithLyons commented on the list lost-for-word

Dear All @ wordnik,
Would anyone out there know of one word which means "rejecting the old"?
By which, I do not mean ageism in its AARP sense. But being against that which comes from the past -- be it a building, a way of dress, older concepts, habits, customs -- or
history itself. Thank you: Keith Lyons @ wordnik.
history itself

Feb 26, 2012

Feb 27, 2012

KeithLyons commented on the word traditions of modernization

Dear All @ wordnik,
Would anyone out there know of one word which means "rejecting the old"?
By which, I do not mean ageism in its AARP sense. But being against that which comes from the past -- be it a building, a way of dress, older concepts, habits, customs -- or
history itself. Thank you: Keith Lyons @ wordnik.

Feb 26, 2012

KeithLyons commented on the user KeithLyons

Dear All @ wordnik,
Would anyone out there know of one word which means "rejecting the old"?
By which, I do not mean ageism in its AARP sense. But being against that which comes from the past -- be it a building, a way of dress, older concepts, habits, customs -- or
history itself. Thank you: Keith Lyons @ wordnik.
history itself

Feb 26, 2012

ruzuzu commented on the user KeithLyons

Interesting question. Let's go ask over on the lost-for-word list.

Edit: And welcome to Wordnik!

Feb 26, 2012

KeithLyons commented on the user KeithLyons

Dear All @ wordnik,
Would anyone out there know of one word which means "rejecting the old"?
By which, I do not mean ageism in its AARP sense. But being against that which comes from the past -- be it a building, a way of dress, older concepts, habits, customs -- or
history itself. Thank you: Keith Lyons @ wordnik.
history itself

Feb 26, 2012