youngness

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noun

The state or qualities of being young or youthful; youth.

Opposite
oldness
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Meanings

nounyoungness (usually uncountable, plural youngnesses)

plural youngnesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe state or qualities of being young or youthful; youth.

    I was eight years older than Arthur, and our affair had started as a crazy fling with all the beauty for me of his youngness and blackness.

    1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN
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    […] he was conscious of a feeling which independently pronounced him her senior in point of Time, and Isabel a child of everlasting youngness.

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

    The puppy room in the basement brimmed with youngness, with suckings, cuddlings, lickings, squirmings—puppies whose eyes were sealed against seeing, puppies whose ears were sealed against hearing for the first ten days of life […]

    1944, Emily Carr, “Puppy Room”, in The House of All Sorts

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe opposite of oldness

Opposite
oldness
Broader
age
Also see
youth

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From young + -ness.

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Cite this entry
APA

youngness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/youngness

MLA

“youngness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/youngness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “youngness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/youngness.

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