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YOUNGNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The opposite of oldness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("youngness" is a kind of...):
age (how long something has existed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "youngness"):
juvenility; youth; youthfulness (the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person)
childishness; puerility (a property characteristic of a child)
Antonym:
oldness (the opposite of youngness)
Derivation:
young (being in its early stage)
young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)
