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JUVENILITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does juvenility mean?

• JUVENILITY (noun)
The noun JUVENILITY has 2 senses:

1. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
2. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Familiarity information: JUVENILITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• JUVENILITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

callowness; jejuneness; juvenility

Hypernyms ("juvenility" is a kind of...):

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

youthfulness; juvenility; youth

Hypernyms ("juvenility" is a kind of...):

youngness (the opposite of oldness)

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