generationally
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- adverb
- /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃənəli/
- The downwinder community are lobbying Congress to expand the bill, both geographically and generationally.
- passed down generationally
- memories passed down generationally
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Watch on YouTubeI believe that, you know, humans can change generationally.
- I believe that, you know, humans can change generationally.
- And then you just think generationally.
- So, you know, I knew that generationally there had been this little thing in our family where people had just had no contacts whatsoever, None.
- The other point is just generationally, as you say, progressives, liberals, even socialists are seduced by by this, this market change.
Examples
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Portions became smaller generationally as multiple children inherited and divided the land.
Academic text (2016) -
Would you agree that what we're facing with our kids is a generationally more magnified level of anxiety and depression?
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There is no doubt we are generationally at that crossing point today.
Blog text (20) -
In the army, the officer corps was split generationally.
Academic text (2000) -
Yet, there are signs that you are breaking age barriers generationally.
Blog text (15) -
Well, we don't have nearly enough data... but in some cases, there is a collective memory passed down generationally.
Fiction book (1997) -
The electorate that gave its vote to Reagan in the 1980s has changed and is continuing to change, demographically and generationally.
Academic text (2009) -
The other point is just generationally, as you say, progressives, liberals, even socialists are seduced by by this, this market change.
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They were generationally, ethnically, socially, culturally, and economically diverse; emphasis mine.
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The impact of climate change is felt generationally, affecting both today's youth and future generations.
Surface Forms
Morphology
generationally = generational (transparent) = generation + al + ly
Formed by adding '-ly' to the clearly derived adjective 'generational', producing an adverb meaning 'in a generational way'.
Etymology
Generationally comes from generation, which is related to generate meaning 'to produce', and generation means 'a group of people born at the same time'. So generationally means 'in a way that relates to different age groups or across generations', which is why we use it for changes or differences between younger and older people.