juvenility
/dʒuvəˈnɪlɪti/
juvenility noun: the state or quality of being juvenile.
Noun
juvenility (countable and uncountable, plural juvenilities)
- 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
- Antonyms:
- senility
- 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
- Antonyms:
- senility
juvenility meaning in Tamil and Urdu
juvenility in Tamil
- juvenility, youth
- குயம் kuyam, சேய் cēy
juvenility in Urdu
- البیلا پن, الہڑ پن, بچپنا, نوجوانی, شباب
Antonyms of juvenility
Forms of juvenility
| plural | juvenilities |
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Origin of juvenility
Borrowed from Latin iuvenilitas. By surface analysis, juvenile + -ity.
Words that rhyme with juvenility
- sensibility
- utility
- facility
- ability
- disability
- compatibility
- possibility
- probability
- fertility
- fragility
- futility
- impossibility
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- senility
- virility
- vulnerability
- agility
- capability
- comfortability
- flexibility
- hostility
- improbability
- indomitability
- instability
- nobility
- stability
- accommodability
- affability
- backward compatibility
- backwards compatibility
- bouncebackability
- chewability
- creatability
- debility
- diffability
- ductility
- forward compatibility
- forwards compatibility
- fuckability
- humility
- impressionability
- ineffability
- irascibility
- manageability
- mutility
- tabability
- unassailability
- upward compatibility
- versatility
Questions about juvenility
- What does juvenility mean?
- Juvenility means the state or quality of being juvenile.
- What is juvenility in Tamil?
- Juvenility in Tamil is குயம் (kuyam), சேய் (cēy). See Juvenility meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is juvenility?
- Juvenility is a noun.
- How do you pronounce juvenility?
- Juvenility is pronounced /dʒuvəˈnɪlɪti/.
- What is the plural of juvenility?
- The plural of juvenility is juvenilities.
Words near juvenility in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: juvenility (page history and authors); குயம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); juvenility (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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