Puerility

Synonyms for "puerility" (41 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (9)

Noun(3 words)

babyishness boylikeness callowness childishness childlikeness girlishness

Strong matches (12)

immaturity imprudence inadvisability inattention inconsideration indiscreetness indiscretion inexpedience infantilism injudiciousness irrationality

Noun(1 words)

immaturity

Choosing the right synonym

Closest matches in this entry: childishness, babyishness, boylikeness, callowness, childhood.
Sentence evidence is available for puerility, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
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Synonym selection checklist

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When not to replace "puerility"

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Replacement workflow

1. Preserve meaning

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Final fit check

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If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "puerility" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

5 entries

behavioral traitimmatureness immaturityrhetorical qualityyoungness

More specific

4 entries

childish behaviorfrivolous remarkjuvenile jokejuvenility

Collocations

6 entries

academic puerilitymoral puerilitypuerile humorpuerility in argumentpuerility in discoursepuerility of behavior

Inflections

1 entries

puerilities

Derivations

3 entries

puerile puerilely puerilism

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

This classification should have led to the discovery and study of remedies which act specifically upon the various textures and tissues of the body, such as the cellular, serous, mucous, parenchymatous, fibrous, gelatinous, &c., but it did not, except in the most imperfect manner—so imperfect, in fact, that most pathologists, despairing of finding such remedies, at one time sank into all the peurilities^([sic – meaning puerilities]) of the "expectant mode" of the French, or the nihilisms of the German.

Source: wiktionary

You treat his opinions (though he never thrusts them on you) about "the Church," and his duty, and the souls of his parishioners, with civil indifference, as much ado about nothing; and his rubrical eccentricities as puerilities.