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Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
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juvenility
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being juvenile. 2 juvenile behaviour, writing, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin iuvenilitas "youth," from iuvenilis (see juvenile ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life [syn: callowness , jejuneness ] the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person [syn: youth , youthfulness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Juvenility \Ju`ve*nil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Juvenilities . [L. juvenilitas: cf. F. juv['e]nilit['e].] Youthfulness; adolescence. --Glanvill. The manners or character of youth; immaturity. --Glanvill.
Usage examples of juvenility.
Humans have been known to submit to many constraints: to rule by Autarchs, by Plutarchs, by the power seekers of the many Republics, by Oligarchs, by tyrant Majorities and Minorities, by the hidden suasions of Polls, by profound instincts and shallow juvenilities.
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them?
Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque ’chivalry’ doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives.