noun
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the quality or condition of being juvenile, esp of being immature
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(often plural) a juvenile act or manner
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juveniles collectively
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Origin of juvenility
Example Sentences
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And when the theatrical comedy is in jeopardy, revitalizing this type of juvenility for low-brow laughs, now tempered even further to be digested between phone scrolls, feels like a golf ball to the forehead.
From Salon • Jul. 27, 2025
Surprisingly, the mistake in his birth date and the claim of juvenility was not raised by the courts, prosecutors and defence lawyers until very late in the case - 2018.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2023
But forgive me if, as a guy, I take particular offense at his attempt to conscript me and mine as conspirators in his loathsomeness, to make us guys human shields for his repugnant juvenility.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2016
In a similar way, the more juvenile jokes squeak by, sometimes, by dint of their flaunted juvenility.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2015
She distinctly looked into Captain Puffin’s dining-room window as she passed, and with the misplaced juvenility so characteristic of her waggled her plump little hand at it.
From Miss Mapp by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
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