juvenility

Other forms: juvenilities

Definitions of juvenility
  1. noun
    the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
    synonyms: youth, youthfulness
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    type of:
    youngness
    the opposite of oldness
  2. noun
    lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
    synonyms: callowness, jejuneness
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    type of:
    immatureness, immaturity
    not having reached maturity
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