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juvenility en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dʒuvəˈnɪlɪti/
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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iuvenilitas. By surface analysis, juvenile + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being juvenile.
   • The plant grew from juvenility to maturity in a week.
   • Next in juvenility to Abraham came two more girls, Hope and Modesty; then a boy of three, and then the baby, who had just completed his first year. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 37:
2. (countable, uncountable) Juvenile behavior, writing, etc.
   • The frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities. 1828, The Eclectic Review, volume 1, page 574:

Forms

Antonyms

senility · senility

Coordinates

infantility

Relateds

juvenescence

Translations (5)

fr juvénilité (The state or quality of being juvenile) · am የወጣትነት (The state or quality of being juvenile) · bg младост (The state or quality of being juvenile) · bg юношество (The state or quality of being juvenile) · la iuvenilitas (The state or quality of being juvenile)