generational

adjective

gen·​er·​a·​tion·​al ¦jenə¦rāshənᵊl 

-shnəl

1

: of or relating to generation

generational sterility

2

: of or relating to a generation or to the relations between generations

an example of a generational … difference in language

—Paul Schach

generationally adverb

In every other way he is so different from his father, so generationally and culturally distant, that the gap might as well be interplanetary.

—Robert Sabbag, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 1995

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