🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

givenilità

Native Script:giuvenilità

Pronunciation / Transliteration: joo-ve-ni-lee-tah

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Juvenility/ˌdʒuː.vəˈnɪl.ə.ti/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La giuvenilità è una fase naturale dello sviluppo dell'organismo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state or quality of being youthful or immature.

    "The plant exhibits prolonged juvenility before it finally begins to produce flowers."
  2. 2

    Youthful behavior or lack of maturity.

    "His speech was marked by a certain juvenility that surprised his senior colleagues."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'juvenilis', meaning youthful, stemming from 'juvenis', meaning young person. It entered the English language in the early 17th century, combining the adjectival root with the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to denote the state or quality of being youthful.

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