juvenility

From juvenile +‎ -ity, from Latin iuvenilitas.

• IPA^(key): /dʒuvəˈnɪlɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

juvenility (countable and uncountable, plural juvenilities)

1. The state or quality of being juvenile.

   Antonym: senility

   Coordinate term: infantility

   The plant grew from juvenility to maturity in a week.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 37:

     Next in juvenility to Abraham came two more girls, Hope and Modesty; then a boy of three, and then the baby, who had just completed his first year.

2. Juvenile behavior, writing, etc.

   Antonym: senility

   Hyponym: puerility

   • 1828, The Eclectic Review, volume 1, page 574:

     The frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities.

• juvenescence