juvenility
noun
juvenile state, character, or manner.
juvenilities
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pluralof juvenility.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He is still preserved from active mischief by his astonishing self-consciousness and lack of humour; when he has outgrown these juvenilities, he will be really formidable.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them?
From The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
In fact, Diane enjoyed these delightful juvenilities all the more keenly because she knew that she could put an end to them at any moment.
From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac
Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque "chivalry" doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives.'
From Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne by William Paton Ker
I heartily wish I had any verses which with a clear mind I could send you in lieu of these juvenilities.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
