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
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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
The jokes are often juvenile and gross, unsophisticated and insensitive, but one does not wish to strike juvenility or grossness or even insensitivity outright from the comic tool kit; these just aren't all that good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2015
“Some one young” had been his definition of her, and it was she who was to make things lively by reason of the said juvenility!
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford
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
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
One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.
From Following the Equator — Part 1 by Mark Twain
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
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