Puerility

Definition: Puerility

Puerility

Noun

1. The state of a child between infancy and adolescence.

2. A property characteristic of a child.

Date "puerility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Puerility \Pu`er*il"i*ty\, noun; plural Puerilities. [Latin puerilitas: compare to French pu['e]rilit['e].]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Puerility

Synonyms: childhood (n), childishness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Imbecility Folly	Simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism; driveling.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Puerility

English words defined with "puerility": Puerileness, Puerilities. (references)

Language		Translations for "puerility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		punë pa mend (Folly, stupidity), çilimillëk. (various references)

Arabic		‏تصرف صبياني, ‏سخف (rubbish), ‏طيش (foolishness, frivolity, impetuosity, imprudence, indiscretion, inexpediency, levity, libertinism, light-heartedness, lightness, prank, rashness, recklessness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unwisdom), ‏صبيانية (childishness, girlishness). (various references)

Bulgarian		глупост (density, fatuity, fatuousness, fiddlestick, foolishness, foppery, hokum, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, nonsense, silliness, simplicity, stupidity, stupidness, thick skull, trash, unreason, unwisdom), незначителност (exiguity, exility, indifference, insignificance, insignificancy, littleness, nothingness), момчещина (boyishness), пуерилност, детинщина. (various references)

Czech		dìtinství (childishness, dotage). (various references)

Farsi		نادانی (Ignorance, Ineptitude), بچگی (Boyhood, Childhood, Infantile). (various references)

French		puérilité. (various references)

German		Pürilität. (various references)

Greek		παιδαριώδεσ, παιδαριωδία, ανοησία (baloney, bunk, fatuity, fatuousness, foolery, foolishness, fooolishness, immunity, inanity, mush, nonsense, nonsensicalness, piffle, rot, shenanighan, silliness, tommy rot). (various references)

Hebrew		יל�"ותיות (childishness, infantility), � ערות (adolescence, boyhood, girlhood, maidenhood, youth). (various references)

Hungarian		gyermekesség, együgyûség (ineptitude). (various references)

Italian		puerilit� . (various references)

Manx		lhiannooaght (babyhood, boyishness, infancy). (various references)

Pig Latin		uerilitypay

Portuguese		puerilidade, infantilidade (boyishness, childness, infantilism, infantility), bobeira. (various references)

Russian		ребячество (babyhood, boyishness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dečaštvo (boyhood, boyishness). (various references)

Spanish		puerilidad (childishness). (various references)

Swedish		barnslighet (childishness, childness). (various references)

Turkish		çocuksu davranış, çocukluk (childhood, childness, infancy, juvenility), çocukça söz. (various references)

Ukrainian		вік хлопчика, легковажність (airiness, carelessness, frivolity, giddiness, hoity toity, levity, lightness), дитячість (babyhood, childishness). (various references)

Vietnamese		trò trẻ con (childishness), tính trẻ con (babyishness, babyism, boyishness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Puerility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poeticity, puerilely, purility. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "puerility" (pronounced 'Pu`er*il"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-p-r-t-u-y"
	-3 letters: euripi, peltry, pertly, pitier, plutei, purely, purity, pyrite, ripely, rutile, triple, triply, typier.
	-4 letters: erupt, letup, liter, litre, peril, piety, pilei, plier, plyer, puler, relit, reply, riley, tiler, tripe, truly, tulip, tuyer, uplit, uteri, utile.
	-5 letters: etui, lept, lier, lieu, lipe, lire, liri, lite, litu, lure, lute, lyre, pelt, peri, pert, pier, pile.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-p-r-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: irruptively, peculiarity.
	+3 letters: disruptively, polyneuritis, reputability.
	+4 letters: perdurability, precipitously, prestigiously, repetitiously, superfluidity.
	+5 letters: interpupillary, peritrichously, pertinaciously, pleasurability, polyneuritides, polyneuritises, superficiality, upgradeability, vituperatively.
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Puerility

Definition: Puerility

Puerility

Noun

Synonyms: Puerility

Synonyms within Context: Puerility

Imbecility Folly

Crosswords: Puerility

Modern Translation: Puerility

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Bulgarian

Czech

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Greek

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Russian

Serbo-Croatian

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Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Misspellings: Puerility

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Puerility"

Anagrams: Puerility

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