juvenility
English
Noun
juvenility (countable and uncountable, plural juvenilities)
- The state or quality of being juvenile.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 37:
- 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.
- The plant grew from juvenility to maturity in a week.
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- juvenile behaviour, writing, etc.
- 1828, The Eclectic Review (volume 1, page 574)
- 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)
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