Contemporary Words

Here's a list of words and their definitions. Have fun reading the list.

1. An ecosexual is a single, environmentally conscious person with a strong aesthetic sense.
   
2. A fauxmosexual is a person who pretends to be gay, particularly as a way of generating attention; or a person who mistakenly believes he or she is gay.
3. A metrosexual is an urban male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
4. A pomosexual is a person who shuns labels such as heterosexual and homosexual that define individuals by their sexual preferences.
5. A retrosexual is a man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.
   
6. A technosexual is a male with a strong aesthetic sense and love of technology.
7. An ubersexual is aheterosexual man who is masculine, confident, compassionate, and stylish.
8. An alpha earner is a wife who earns all or most of her household's income
   
9. Womenomics is the theory that women play a primary role in economic growt
10. The 13th Generation is those who are born between 1961 and 1981 because they are identified as the 13th generation since the founding of the United States.
    
11. The Nexus Generation is another term for the Generation X who represent, to some, a link (nexus) between the Industrial Age and the Information Age.
12. People born in 1978 or later are known as Generation Y because they came after Generation X, the cohort born between 1965 and 1977. Since Generation Y is composed mostly of the children of the Baby Boom Generation (1946 to 1964), a synonym for Generation Y is the Baby Boom Echo. Yet another synonym for Generation Y is Millenial Generation or the Millenials.
    
13. The N-Gen or Net Generation refers to the people born since the advent of the personal computer.
    
14. Generation 9-11 is the group of people who were enrolled in high school or university on September 11, 2001.
15. Generation D (also known as Digital Generation) is the group of people that has grown up with and is completely at home with digital devices and digital culture.
16. Generation O is those who are approximately 18 to 35 years old who voted for or supported Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
17. Generation XL refers to children or young adults who are overweight.
18. The Reset Generation are the young people who, when a situation becomes difficult or burdensome, quit and start over again in a different situation. This phrase was inspired by the "reset" feature that comes with most video or computer games. Choosing this feature gives the player a fresh start and is most often employed when the player gets into a mess from which he or she can't or won't escape.
19. The Sandwich Generation are the people who must care for both their children and their parents; people who have finished raising their children and now must take care of their aging parents.
20. The Club-sandwich Generation are the people who provide care for their parents, children, and grandchildren.
21. Skipped-Generation relates to a household in which grandparents are the primary or sole caregivers for their grandchildren.
    

Source: Wordspy