juvenility
Collocations
4ADJ.
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VERB + JUVENILITY
grew, plant
JUVENILITY + NOUN
abraham, maturity
PREP.
from, in, in
Definitions
noun
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.
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.
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Synonyms
noun — the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- youth
- youthfulness
noun — lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
- callowness
- jejuneness
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Example Bank
3The plant grew from juvenility to maturity in a week.
WiktionaryNext 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.
WiktionaryThe frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities.
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