- generation; the world; the age
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
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They are better educated, healthier and wealthier than their parents' generation was at their age.
For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.
If it were not for books, each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past.
Certainly there are inequalities in level of education even within a generation, but there have been no visible inequities between machines and materials in recent years.