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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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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