Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being juvenile; youthfulness.
- noun Foolishly juvenile behavior or character; immaturity.
- noun An instance of juvenile behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being young; youthfulness, or a youthful manner or appearance.
- noun Anything characteristic of youth; a juvenile act or idea; juvenile crudity or volatility; a youthful proceeding or performance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Youthfulness; adolescence.
- noun The manners or character of youth; immaturity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
state orquality of beingjuvenile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
- noun the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word juvenility.
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".
Anti-Terror Measure 2004
-
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.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
-
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.
The Juniper Days – Part II, The Diary Alison Earls 2011
-
There is a strain of destructiveness that is just built into male juvenility.
-
He had no patience with their excessive and amazing juvenility.
THE APOSTATE 2010
-
He had no patience with their excessive and amazing 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.
Introducing Science Fiction: A Gift Guide | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
-
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.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.