xennial

Blend of x +‎ millennial, coined in 2014.

• IPA^(key): /ziːni.əl/

xennial (plural xennials)

1. A person born late in Generation X or early for millennials; that is, sometime born in the late 1970s or first half of the 1980s.
   • 2014 Stankorb, Sarah (September 25, 2014), “Glad to be a Xennial”, in GOOD‎

     “I was born in 1980. According to some sources, this makes me a Gen Xer. According to others, I’m a Millennial. That makes me what then, a Xennial? I take online quizzes, like Pew Research Center’s “How Millennial Are You?”, and land dead between Gen X and Millennial due to my personal habits, body piercings, and so many more reasons.”

   • 2017 Stankorb, Sarah (July 6, 2017), “I Made Up Xennial 3 Years Ago, So Why Is a Professor in Australia Getting All the Credit?”, in Vogue‎

     “Xennial is a term that I first used in a 2014 story for GOOD magazine, following on the heels of writers like Doree Shafrir, who in 2011 called this cusp generation’s pop-cultural misfit status Generation Catalano, after crowdsourcing the My So-Called Life–inspired term from Danielle Nussbaum on Twitter. It was later called Generation Oregon Trail by Anna Garvey in 2015. But back when I was pitching the story to GOOD, I wanted a word that wasn’t couched in a pop-cultural touchstone—something broader, which could encapsulate all of us who bridge the two generations.”

   • 2017 Adams, Dwight (November 10, 2017), “You're a xennial — if you're caught between Generation X and millennials”, in Indianapolis Star‎

     “But there's this new group, you may know them — that microgeneration sandwiched between — who feel like they don't really belong to either group[…] Love it or hate it, there's a newish name for these lost souls: the "xennials" (pronounced ZEE-knee-als).”

• Generation Y
• MTV generation