Crossword clues for juvenility
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin iuvenilitas "youth," from iuvenilis (see juvenile).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being juvenile. 2 juvenile behaviour, writing, etc.
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]
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.