Seniorism

Noun. When a persons age, prolonged experience, or position of seniority causes faults in judgement, biases, outdated ideologies, or simply outright ignorance.

Someone who refuses to get with the times or adapt to changes may be known as a “Seniorist”.

Examples of seniorism:

“Things were better in the olden days.”

“You can’t change it, we’ve done it like that for years.”
“Let’s rebuild an empire in the 2020s”

“Karen’s seniorism has gotten out of hand, she keeps trying convince me to bring back the USSR.”

“Dave is a major seniorist; you tell him there’s a new procedure, he will do it the way he always did.”