Vahid Rakhshan I think as to oldness is a higher development from more standard things and varies by individual. Some don't care, and some are attracted to old things.

Boredom is universal to encourage learning, much as loneliness is and encourages social behaviors.

Decay is universally disliked also.

Thanks dear Karl Sipfle yes, it is like "novelty seeking": some people seek new things, some don't care, and some prefer no changes. But unlike novelty seeking which is already defined in psychiatry, this "oldness aversion" might not be defined so (at least I don't know of it; hence my questions).

So is it just another face of "novelty seeking" or is it some independent dimension besides "novelty seeking" to be defined and assessed in psychiatry?

Vahid Rakhshan It seems it is one of a plethora of minor preferences and tendencies that some individuals have and is not important enough to become any psychiatric category. Recognition and capture of attention by novelty, in contrast, runs very deep and is universal. Besides the deeper level presence, for people it makes things interesting, and is also key to humor.

Thanks Karl Sipfle so I guess as you said, it is not formulated officially.

Dear S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist do you know the answer to this question?

Thank you Vahid for asking. There are Gerontophobia that is fear of age-related self-degeneration or a hatred or fear of the elderly due to memento mori = death. Then you may frequent the plastic surgeon. Greek γέρων – gerōn, "old man" and φόβος – phobos, "fear". Gerontophobia has been linked to Thanatophobia = fear of death

as fear of old age can be seen as a precursor to fear of death. Gerontophobia can be caused by harmful stereotypes of elderly people in the media.

Gerascophobia is a clinical specific phobia or fears of a single specific panic trigger. Gerascophobia may be based on anxieties to be left alone without resources and incapable of caring for oneself due to age-caused disability

We might all have feared - when we were in the beginning of our life -

to be left alone or perhaps to have a "tiger" under our bed we knew we could not cope with:)

Age and repetitiousness Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects people of all ages and walks of life and occurs when a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions.

Many thanks dear S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist for this awesome answer. I guess the fear of death can explain my aversion towards old things and oldness in general; even comes to my conscious mind the saddening thought that "these people depicted in this movie are long gone".

I have always had a phobia of death itself from the age 5.

I guess the aversion towards repetitiousness might be explained directly by novelty seeking, as its opposite. They seem to be two sides of one coin.

Thank you dear Vahid,

Fear of death decreases with age so no reason to worry. All of a sudden it is gone and when you have strengthen a belief system that tells you where you are likely to end up afterwards. In the end of life you may be satisfied like Abraham to leave this not so easy life. "Abraham died at a ripe old age, having lived a long and satisfying life."

Again awesome dear Beatrice! Thanks a lot. :)

My private message sent to you about 12 hours ago is in line with your nice explanation.

Another source of our aversion toward oldness is our conditioning with something called EXPIRATION DATE, in which old things are probably rotten, toxic, bad, or at least ineffective and 'outdated'.