Juvenility
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state or quality of being juvenile. countable, uncountable
"The plant grew from juvenility to maturity in a week."
- 2 the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person wordnet
- 3 Juvenile behavior, writing, etc. countable, uncountable
"The frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities."
- 4 lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life wordnet
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More examples"Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than the interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, through which our two travelers advanced—looking out on each side of them at the comfortable animation of the sidewalks, the high-colored, heterogeneous architecture, the huge white marble facades glittering in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded lettering, the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, the vendors of cooling fluids, the white trousers and big straw hats of the policemen, the tripping gait of the modish young persons on the pavement, the general brightness, newness, juvenility, both of people and things."
Etymology
From juvenile + -ity, from Latin iuvenilitas.
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