juvenility

English edit

juvenility (countable and uncountable, plural juvenilities)

The state or quality of being juvenile.
Antonym: senility
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 37:
  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.
The plant grew from juvenility to maturity in a week.
Juvenile behaviour, writing, etc.
Antonym: senility

Hyponym: puerility
- 1828, The Eclectic Review, volume 1, page 574:
  The frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities.

The state or quality of being juvenile