YOUTHFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does youthfulness mean? 

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

1. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUTHFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

juvenility; youth; youthfulness

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

youngness (the opposite of oldness)

Derivation:

youthful (suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh)

 Context examples 

As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After two days and nights, I felt as if I had lived there for a year, and yet I was not an hour older, but was quite as much tormented by my own youthfulness as ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)