juvenility
81prime — primary / prime [adj1] best, principal capital, cardinal, chief, crackerjack*, dominant, excellent, fab*, first, first class*, greatest, heavy, highest, hot*, leading, main, number one*, paramount, primo*, state of the art*, stellar, top, top of… …
82puberty — [n] young adulthood adolescence, awkward stage*, boyhood, girlhood, greenness*, high school years, juvenescence, juvenility, potency, preadolescence, pubescence, spring*, springtide*, springtime*, teenage years, teens, youth, youthfulness;… …
83juvenile — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to young people, birds, or animals. 2) childish. ► NOUN 1) a young person, bird, or animal. 2) Law a person below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible (18 in most countries). DERIVATIVES juvenility …
84immatureness — noun not having reached maturity • Syn: ↑immaturity • Ant: ↑maturity (for: ↑immaturity) • Derivationally related forms: ↑immature, ↑immature …
85immaturity — noun not having reached maturity • Syn: ↑immatureness • Ant: ↑maturity • Derivationally related forms: ↑immature (for: ↑immatureness), ↑immature …
86juvenile — adj. & n. adj. 1 a young, youthful. b of or for young persons. 2 suited to or characteristic of youth. 3 often derog. immature (behaving in a very juvenile way). n. 1 a young person. 2 Commerce a book intended for young people. 3 an actor playing …
87youngness — noun the opposite of oldness • Ant: ↑oldness • Derivationally related forms: ↑young • Hypernyms: ↑age • Hyponyms: ↑youth, ↑youthfulness, ↑ …
