Relating to a group of people born in the same time period or belonging to the same stage in a family line.
From 'generation' (from Latin 'generatio') plus the suffix '-al'. 'Generation' originally meant the act of producing offspring, then came to mean a group of offspring, and eventually a cohort of people born around the same time.
Marketers invented 'Boomer,' 'Gen X,' 'Millennial,' and 'Gen Z' to sell things, but the word 'generational' reveals something real: people born together share historical moments that shape them differently than their parents.
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