juvenilia
/ˌd͡ʒuːvəˈnɪliə/US/ˌd͡ʒuvəˈnɪliə/
juvenilia noun: works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
Noun
juvenilia pl (plural only)
- Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- […]rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his “Juvenilia” or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,[…].1888 [1692 August 18], John Dryden, “A Discourse on the Original and Progress of Satire”, in Henry Morley, editor, Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry, London; Paris; New York; Melbourne: Cassell...
- Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.1996, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C.S. Lewis
juvenilia meaning in Urdu
juvenilia in Urdu
- آثار شباب, بچوں کا ادب
Origin of juvenilia
From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”). By surface analysis, juvenile + -ia
Words that rhyme with juvenilia
- aquaphilia
- bibliophilia
- biophilia
- microphilia
- necrophilia
- philia
- -philia
- ephebophilia
- geophilia
- gerontophilia
- pedophilia
- trichophilia
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- vorarephilia
- xenophilia
- zoophilia
- androphilia
- aptophilia
- asphyxiophilia
- autoandrogynemorphophilia
- autoandrophilia
- autogynandromorphophilia
- autogynephilia
- autonepiophilia
- cilia
- claustrophilia
- coprophilia
- discophilia
- eproctophilia
- glossophilia
- haemophilia
- inflatophilia
- Japanophilia
- Kabylia
- klismaphilia
- Laconophilia
- limnophilia
- lithophilia
- logophilia
- lygophilia
- macrophilia
- milia
- nyctophilia
- opacarophilia
- plushophilia
- scopophilia
- sillier
- teratophilia
- urophilia
Questions about juvenilia
- What does juvenilia mean?
- Juvenilia means works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- What is juvenilia in Urdu?
- Juvenilia in Urdu is آثار شباب, بچوں کا ادب. See Juvenilia meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is juvenilia?
- Juvenilia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce juvenilia?
- Juvenilia is pronounced /ˌd͡ʒuːvəˈnɪliə/ (UK).
Words near juvenilia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: juvenilia (page history and authors); juvenilia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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