JUVENILITY

youth, youthfulness, juvenility

(noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

callowness, jejuneness, juvenility

(noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

juvenility (countable and uncountable, plural juvenilities)

The state or quality of being juvenile.

juvenile behaviour, writing, etc.

Antonyms

• senility

Source: Wiktionary


Ju`ve*nil"i*ty, n.; pl. Juvenilities. Etym: [L. juvenilitas: cf. F. juvénilité.]

1. Youthfulness; adolescence. Glanvill.

2. The manners or character of youth; immaturity. Glanvill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

1 June 2025

BACKFIRE

(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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