YOUNGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does youngness mean? 

• YOUNGNESS (noun)
  The noun YOUNGNESS has 1 sense:

1. the opposite of oldness

  Familiarity information: YOUNGNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNGNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The opposite of oldness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

age (how long something has existed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "youngness"):

juvenility; youth; youthfulness (the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person)

childishness; puerility (a property characteristic of a child)

Antonym:

oldness (the opposite of youngness)

Derivation:

young (being in its early stage)

young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)