xennial

English

Etymology

Blend of x +‎ millennial.

Noun

xennial (plural xennials)

  1. A person born late in Generation X or early for millennials; that is, sometime born in the late 1970s or first half of the 1980s.
    • 2017 Adams, Dwight (November 10, 2017), “You're a xennial — if you're caught between Generation X and millennials”, in Indianapolis Star‎
      “But there's this new group, you may know them — that microgeneration sandwiched between — who feel like they don't really belong to either group[…] Love it or hate it, there's a newish name for these lost souls: the "xennials" (pronounced ZEE-knee-als).”

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