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juvenility

noun
/dʒuvəˈnɪlɪti/

Etymology

From juvenile + -ity, from Latin iuvenilitas.

  1. derived from iuvenilitas

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA