Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being juvenile; youthfulness.
- n. Foolishly juvenile behavior or character; immaturity.
- n. An instance of juvenile behavior.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being young; youthfulness, or a youthful manner or appearance.
- n. Anything characteristic of youth; a juvenile act or idea; juvenile crudity or volatility; a youthful proceeding or performance.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Youthfulness; adolescence.
- n. The manners or character of youth; immaturity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
- n. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
Examples
“You see, I did in truth chuckle at the original post, and decided that I would try to top it in terms of "juvenility".”
“The congregation then decanted itself out of the chapel -- the spirits of the people dancing with that remarkable buoyancy or juvenility which is felt after a thunderstorm, when the air is calm, soople, and balmy -- and all nature garmented with glittering verdure and light.”
“That kind of juvenility, along with its implication of skewing younger than the live-action”
“His juvenility prevented him from entering those universities, and so, in 1909, we find him a freshman at historic Bowdoin College.”
“I have always enjoyed admiration but this doe-eyed juvenility doesn't flatter in the slightest.”
“He had no patience with their excessive and amazing juvenility.”
“There is a strain of destructiveness that is just built into male juvenility.”
“Fond as I was of mia estimata amiko Forry Ackerman, to a lot of folks the very term “sci-fi” helps perpetuate the implications of mindless juvenility which science fiction as a literary genre has been trying to escape for decades.”
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“Maybe they do remember Witold Gombrowicz and, just like him, they desire culture without all this juvenility and senile atrophy, butterflies and rainbows, dust and exaltation, patriotic and pseudo-intellectual demands.”
“Ezra has a hilariously unexpected comparison -- the juvenility of the McCain and Howard Dean campaigns.”
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