Definitions
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- n. The state or qualities of being young or youthful; youth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The quality or state of being young.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition of being young.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the opposite of oldness
Etymologies
Examples
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You behave yourself, but keep them active, they need your "youngness" around them.
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All this to the alien suggests something, a want of balance, a "youngness" perhaps.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
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Turn that whole idea of what "youngness" means on its head.
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We chalked it up to comics keeping you young with their startling youngness.
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“At my age, with all the vexations of youngness so far behind me!”
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The collection, which was shown to the music of Stevie Nicks, he said, "had a little bit of hippie-ness and romance … and I think a youngness and a contemporary-ness," he added.
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However, he'll soon be wiser, so we must not be too severe with him; though I told him, the last time, I had rather he would not ask me so often; which was being almost too sharp, I'm afraid, considering his youngness; for one can't expect him to be an old man at once. '
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But he's got this newness and this youngness about him that I think appeals to Europeans as they look to see -- and they're very caught up in the election in the U.S. -- as they look to see, well, who's next?
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I notice the youngness of feminist blogs in particular—it seems like issues affecting older women are routinely ignored.
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Then the youth came away to the doorway, with a flush mounting on his face and a grimace distorting its youngness.
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