juvenility
noun/dʒuvəˈnɪlɪti/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin iuvenilitas. By surface analysis, juvenile + -ity.
1
The state or quality of being juvenile.
- The plant grew from juvenility to maturity in a week.
- Next in juvenility to Abraham came two more girls, Hope and Modesty; then a boy of three, and then the baby, who had just completed his first year.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 37:
2
Juvenile behavior, writing, etc.
- The frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities.1828, The Eclectic Review, volume 1, page 574:
- Related terms
- juvenescence