Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Works, particularly written or artistic works, produced in an author's or artist's youth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Things done (especially written) in youth; juvenile writings or works of art.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Latin iuvenilia, neuter plural of iuvenilis “of or pertaining to youth.” (Wiktionary)
- Latin iuvenīlia, from neuter pl. of iuvenīlis, juvenile; see juvenile. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My juvenilia is on the shelf for anyone to look at.”
“Heydt-Stevenson importantly insists that the "abandon" of the juvenilia is not "entirely repressed" in”
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
“Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window”
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
“Only now is Williams 'piece of late' juvenilia 'getting its European premiere and Sansom's production makes the case for it to be regarded as no less enduring than the O'Neill in terms of its themes but also richly distinctive in its own turbulent atmosphere.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
“There is just no excuse for this kind of juvenilia anymore:”
“juvenilia" performs simultaneously to sexualize and desexualize the narrative of an authorial career.”
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
“I've gotten about halfway thru the 550-page 2nd volume of the Library Edition; I've finished, that is, all the poems he formally published & collected during his lifetime (the collection of record, which more or less signalled the close of Ruskin's already negelected poetic career, came out in 1850, when he was 31), & have just embarked on the real live "juvenilia," starting with the bits of precocious doggerel he was cranking out at 7 or so ....”
“We also shared bits of our most embarrassing juvenilia.”
“Some of us think quite highly of your juvenilia – it should certainly be put on line.”
“The archive includes very early influences from his mother, a freelance journalist, who would sweep away the breakfast things and type short stories all morning, while Alan sat under the table doing his own juvenilia on a toy typewriter.”
The Guardian: Alan Ayckbourn archive to be available to the public
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘juvenilia’.
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phrontistery - j
from phrontistery.info
jabberwock, jabot, jacent, jacinthe, jack, jackanapes, jack-block, jack-cross-tree, jackstaff, jackstay, jackyard, jacobin and 137 more...
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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useful ones
ersatz, pastiche, amalgam, polemic, implacable, inchoate, tautology, grum, nonpareil, gracile, supernal, auspicious and 88 more...
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Words
Words I like.
jejune, eunoia, swallow, spelunk, milquetoast, echolalia, trumble, toothsome, synecdoche, taciturn, kerfuffle, aleatoric and 98 more...
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Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
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autrefois's Words
tassel, vespertine, susurrus, crepuscular, maddening, aureate, halcyon, happenstance, kismet, carousel, luscious, mendacious and 56 more...
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bookish
grimoire, bildungsroman, roman a clef, chapbook, picaresque, codicology, epistolary, colophon, manuscript, memoir, incunabulum, bibliomaniac and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for juvenilia.
john "Now John McCain is pea-green with envy. That’s the only explanation for why a man who prides himself on honor, a man who vowed not to take the low road in the campaign, having been mugged by W. and Rove in South Carolina in 2000, is engaging in a festival of juvenilia."
The New York Times, McCain’s Green-Eyed Monster, by Maureen Dowd, August 5, 2008 Aug 6, 2008