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The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
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youthfulness
Word definitions for youthfulness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The vitality characteristic of youth.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person [syn: youth , juvenility ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Youthful \Youth"ful\, a. Not yet mature or aged; young. ``Two youthful knights.'' --Dryden. Also used figuratively. ``The youthful season of the year.'' --Shak. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, ...
Usage examples of youthfulness.
Of course she could not deceive me, and she must have known it, nevertheless, she liked me to bear outward testimony to her youthfulness.
After writing to Gratian he had spent the week before his holiday began, in an attempt to renew the youthfulness of his appearance, which made him feel older, leaner, bonier and browner than ever.
Of course she could not deceive me, and she must have known it, nevertheless, she liked me to bear outward testimony to her youthfulness.
He waits apprehensively, marvelling anew at how she manages to maintain her youthfulness now Miranda is almost out of her teens and Ashley is preparing for his O-levels.
It would never do to appear sedate and elderly before Melanie’s sweet youthfulness.
Her manner didn’t seem an affectation of girlishness or a pathetic clinging to sex—or, if it were, a very subtle one—but rather a hungry infatuation with youthfulness, with dewiness, with freshness, so great that it influenced the very cells and electrical tensions of her body.
This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart.
Despite his youthfulness he already had qualifications and experience which many practicing pathologists would find it hard to match.
He had known Victory Smith since the day she came into Lands Command, a spanking new junior lieutenant, a lady with an unplaced name and an undisguisable youthfulness.