JUVENILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does juvenility mean? 

• JUVENILITY (noun)
  The noun JUVENILITY has 2 senses:

1. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

2. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

  Familiarity information: JUVENILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUVENILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

callowness; jejuneness; juvenility

Hypernyms ("juvenility" is a kind of...):

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Derivation:

juvenile (displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

juvenility; youth; youthfulness

Hypernyms ("juvenility" is a kind of...):

youngness (the opposite of oldness)

Derivation:

juvenile (of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people)