Puerility
81tomfoolery — n 1. antic, antics, caper, Inf. shenanigans, Sl. monkeyshines, Sl. monkey business; mockery, farce, mummery; mischief, prankishness, Inf. hanky panky, Scot, and North Eng. daffing; prank, escapade, trick, practical joke, roguish trick, Fr.… …
82youth — n 1. childhood, early life, salad days, boyhood, girlhood; adolescence, teens, teenage, teen years, pubescence; minority, nonage; heyday, springtime of life, bloom or flower of life, golden season of life, day spring of life; immaturity, growing… …
83frivolity — [n] silliness, childishness coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness …
84puerile — a. childish. ♦ puerilism, n. childish conduct. ♦ puerility, n. ♦ puericulture, n. bringing up of children; antenatal care …
85pupillarity — The age of a child s puerility; minority …
86puerile — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ childishly silly and trivial. DERIVATIVES puerility noun (pl. puerilities) . ORIGIN Latin puerilis, from puer boy …
87puerilities — puerile ► ADJECTIVE ▪ childishly silly and trivial. DERIVATIVES puerility noun (pl. puerilities) . ORIGIN Latin puerilis, from puer boy …
88immatureness — noun not having reached maturity • Syn: ↑immaturity • Ant: ↑maturity (for: ↑immaturity) • Derivationally related forms: ↑immature, ↑immature …
89immaturity — noun not having reached maturity • Syn: ↑immatureness • Ant: ↑maturity • Derivationally related forms: ↑immature (for: ↑immatureness), ↑immature …
90puerile — adj. 1 trivial, childish, immature. 2 of or like a child. Phrases and idioms: puerile breathing breathing characterized by a loud pulmonary murmur as in children, a sign of disease in an adult. Derivatives: puerilely adv. puerility n. (pl. ies).… …
