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Definition of Juvenility

1. Noun. Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life.

2. Noun. The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person.

Definition of Juvenility

1. n. Youthfulness; adolescence.

Definition of Juvenility

1. Noun. The state or quality of being juvenile ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Juvenility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Juvenility

juvenile pattern juvenile pelvis juvenile periodontitis juvenile person juvenile polyp juvenile polyposis coli juvenile retinoschisis juvenile rheumatoid arthritis juvenile wart juvenile xanthogranuloma

juvenileness juveniles juvenilia juvenilities juvenility (current term) juvenilization juvenilizations juvenilize juvenilized juvenilizes

juvenilizing juves juvey juvia juvias juvie juwansa juxta juxta-

Literary usage of Juvenility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"The intellectual juvenile who STAIRS juvenility. ' awakens the tremendous wrath of a Norma of private life ' by considering woman an inferior animal, ..."

2. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent. by William Roscoe (1797)
"... exceeded fourteen years, and it must not be denied that the poem bears upon the face of it the marks of juvenility—but what a manhood does it promise ? ..."

3. Retrospections of the Stage by John Bernard (1832)
"Mrs. Abingdon and her " teeth ;" a gallant controversy ; her juvenility.—Edwin's death.—Retirement from Covent Garden. ON returning to town, ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"... to make quick-witted readers smile at the juvenility of the author's fancy. .... juvenility ..."

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