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genarian

noun
/d͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/UK/d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹi.ən/US

Etymology

Back-formation from sexagenarian, septuagenarian, octogenarian, and so on.

  1. derived from gignō — “to beget, produce”
  2. borrowed from genus
  3. suffixed as genarian — “genus + arian”

Definitions

  1. An elderly person, especially one over the age of 60.

    • Let all the genarians pass in review — The procession will last but a minute or two.
    • His garden is an expansive project for an octogenarian, or any kind of genarian.
    • At the other end of the spectrum, several genarians had physical fitness AQs down in the 30s!

  2. Concerning rules or principles as opposed to acts.

    • This distinguishes his position from that of rule-utilitarians like Brandt, with whom Hare otherwise largely agrees, and makes Hare an actarian in my sense rather than a genarian.
    • Rawls' s theory is genarian (the Method is used to derive rules, principles, which in turn are applied to acts) rather than actarian (the Method applied directly to acts).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA