teenageness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈtiːn.eɪ̯d͡ʒ.nɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈtiːn.æɪ̯d͡ʒ.nəs/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˈtiːn.æɪ̯d͡ʒ.nɪs/ (Australia)
- tēn′āj-nĭs
- /ˈʈiːn.eːd͡ʒ.nɪs/ (India)
- /ˈtin.ed͡ʒ.nɪs/ (Scotland)
- /ˈtin.eɪ̯d͡ʒ.nɪs/ (Canada, General-American)
Etymology
From teenage + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being or being like a teenager.
Mr. Avalon must have been near fifty now, but still some kind of feckless teenageness clung to him, in his lank, shining hair, his unbuttoned black shirts, the school-boyish way he'd kick back at his teaching desk, sneakers crossed on the tabletop.
2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 321:I almost feel sorry for them but then I realize that their response to her teenageness is helping shape her for the future.
2015, James Colson, Kassie Saga: Teenage Diplomat, →ISBN:Your teen experience is so central to what Zen Buddhists call “this great matter of birth and death,” that to be fully awake to your teenageness is to be a genuinely spiritual person.
2002, Franz Metcalf, Buddha in Your Backpack: Everyday Buddhism for Teens, page xii:I wish I hadn't resisted the magnetic pull of teenageness into that roiling heart of communal feeling.
2019, Sam George-Allen, Witches, page 14: