generation's
Belonging to contemporaries
Generation's is the possessive form of generation, indicating something belonging to or associated with a particular age group or cohort: This generation's challenges differ from their parents'.
It can refer to defining characteristics this generation's obsession with screens, shared experiences, or collective identity.
The word often appears in discussions comparing different eras: Each generation's values shape the next.
Those born 1981-1996
- boomersPostwar demographic cohort
- Gen-ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- Gen-XMid-century birth cohort
- youthState of being immature
elders · cohort · successors · predecessors · offspring · descendants · heirs · inheritors
Those from whom one descends
- descendantsThose who come after
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
forebears · offspring · grandparents · grandchildren · inheritance · legacy · kinship · genealogy
Of discrete data
- analogComparable equivalent
- wirelessUntethered signal transmission
- computingProcessing data mathematically
- AISimulated cognitive processing
internet · smartphone · software · innovation · upgrade · platform · interface · connectivity
What something generates
- creationMaking something exist
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- productionMaking or generating something
- manufactureMake goods industrially
synthesis · formation · origination · emission · electricity · power · renewable · solar
millennials
Those born 1981-1996
- boomersPostwar demographic cohort
- Gen-ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- Gen-XMid-century birth cohort
youth · elders · cohort · successors · predecessors · offspring · descendants · heirs · inheritors · juniors
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
- descendantsThose who come after
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
bloodline · forebears · offspring · grandparents · grandchildren · inheritance · legacy · kinship · genealogy · dynasty
digital
Of discrete data
- analogComparable equivalent
- wirelessUntethered signal transmission
- computingProcessing data mathematically
AI · internet · smartphone · software · innovation · upgrade · platform · interface · connectivity · automation
output
What something generates
- creationMaking something exist
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- productionMaking or generating something
manufacture · synthesis · formation · origination · emission · electricity · power · renewable · solar · wind
era
Distinct historical period
period · span · lifetime · contemporaries · peers · decade · century · succession · wave · cycle
generation'sindividual's
Belonging to one entity
person's · eternity's · moment's · instant's · humanity's
generation'sindividual's
Belonging to one entity
person's · one's · someone's · somebody's · anyone's
- generation gapAge-based cultural disconnect
- younger generationThose born later
- next generationSubsequent group following current
- new generationSuccessors to current group
- first generationEarliest in a line
- older generationThose born earlier
generation, generations, regeneration, degeneration, generational, intergenerational, multigenerational