age difference
noun
: the amount by which ages are different
There's a 15-year age difference between her oldest and youngest children.
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As a romance blossomed, Heard didn’t appear fazed by the 22-year age difference.
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Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Pattinson himself even joked about the age difference back in March.
—Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
That sounds like an enormous age difference, but in space, 90 million years isn’t really that long – less than 1% of the total time the universe has been around.
—Lucas Brefka, The Conversation, 19 May 2025
But as stated, not every relationship that has an age difference regarding an older man and a younger woman involves a dirty old fart looking to wrangle a naive young woman.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 25 Apr. 2025
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Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Pattinson himself even joked about the age difference back in March.
—Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
That sounds like an enormous age difference, but in space, 90 million years isn’t really that long – less than 1% of the total time the universe has been around.
—Lucas Brefka, The Conversation, 19 May 2025
But as stated, not every relationship that has an age difference regarding an older man and a younger woman involves a dirty old fart looking to wrangle a naive young woman.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for age difference
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“Age difference.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/age%20difference. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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