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juvenility noun[ U ] formal usually disapprovinguk /ˌdʒuː.vəˈnɪl.ə.ti/ us /ˌdʒuː.vəˈnɪl.ə.t̬i/ the quality of being juvenile (= behaving in a way that is silly and typical of a child): My occasional lapses into juvenility seemed to pain him. Juvenility is rampant in contemporary culture. I have never once complained about the juvenility of some comments on here. Generally speaking, nothing makes drearier reading than deliberate juvenility on the part of adults. In some respects the work shows its juvenility, gathering together the influences that eventually formed the mature artist. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Describing people who are young adolescent adolescently at your mother's kneeidiom be knee-high to a grasshopperidiom flower fresh-faced knee-high little mother pre-puberty prepubescent pubescent slip tender tweener underage ya yoof young young adult |