Juvenocracy

Quick meaning: Juvenocracy is a noun meaning Government by youth.

Meaning

Government by youth.

Example Sentences

Should College Students Grade Their Teachers? The Risk Is ‘Juvenocracy’; Students and Teachers “In each generation a minority hears the call to find utopia”

Adolescence is lengthened and the gerontocracy of ancient and modern times is succeeded by a juvenocracy, a phenomenon whose economic, sociocultural, and moral consequences are not yet fully measurable.

,‘JUVENOCRACY” IS COLLEGE FAILING […] “It is a new reign of juvenocracy,” said Dr. Anthony. The remedy, he suggested, in Shakespeare’s lines: “To thine own self be true and it then will follow as the night the day thou canst not be false to any man.”

Officials Enjoy Rest As Young People Rule Over Borough for Day / Brooklyn is a juvenocracy today. Youth rules the borough and age is ousted from office. Twenty-eight boys and girls from the borough’s high schools are “in” while all officials, from the Borough President down, are “out” playing golf, or something.

Word Forms

• juvenocracies

Antonyms for juvenocracy

Common opposites include gerontocracy.

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