millennial
millennial – sostantivo
millennial – aggettivo
Millennials are less likely to have had sex than any other generation since the 1920s with a marked rise in the proportion of people embracing celibacy in their early 20s, according to a new study.
Tech-savvy? Narcissistic? Open-minded? What does being a millennial really mean?
The Millennial generation follows Generation X in order of demographic cohorts.
Millennial customers — 80 million in the U.S. alone — are about to become the most important customers your business has ever seen.
Si sa, ai giornalisti piace etichettare le diverse generazioni. Un termine che circola con insistenza da qualche anno è millennial, appellativo con cui ci si riferisce ai giovani del nuovo millennio, quelli nati tra la fine degli anni ’80 e la metà dei ’90. Il motivo per cui se ne parla è che, perlomeno nel Regno Unito, questi giovani si vedono negate opportunità che le generazioni precedenti davano per scontate: l’istruzione superiore gratuita, un posto di lavoro stabile, la possibilità di comprare la prima casa… tutte cose che contribuiscono alla loro generale insicurezza del futuro.
Origini del termine
L’aggettivo millennial risale al XVII secolo, mentre il sostantivo pare sia stato coniato da William Strauss e Neil Howe nel 1987, in uno studio da loro pubblicato, per riferirsi ai nati nel 1982 e che avrebbero dunque raggiunto la maggiore età nel 2000.
millennial – noun
millennial – adjective
Millennials are less likely to have had sex than any other generation since the 1920s with a marked rise in the proportion of people embracing celibacy in their early 20s, according to a new study.
Tech-savvy? Narcissistic? Open-minded? What does being a millennial really mean?
The Millennial generation follows Generation X in order of demographic cohorts.
Millennial customers — 80 million in the U.S. alone — are about to become the most important customers your business has ever seen.
Journalists love labels for the different generations, as they give them pegs to hang articles on. One that has been seen a lot in recent years is millennial, which refers variously to young people who reached adulthood around the year 2000, the turn of the millennium, or more broadly to those born between about 1980 and 1994. The reason they are much in the news is that they are felt, in the UK at least, to have missed out on the things that other generations have taken for granted: free higher education, steady jobs, career progression, the ability to buy their own homes, all leading to lives characterized by insecurity and flux.
Origins
Millennial as an adjective meaning “related to the millennium” dates back to the 17th century. The noun use was apparently coined in 1987 by authors William Strauss and Neil Howe to refer to the children born in 1982 who would reach adulthood in the year 2000, and was used in the title of a book by them published in that year.
