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youthfulness

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Etymology

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From youthful +‎ -ness.

Noun

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youthfulness (usually uncountable, plural youthfulnesses)

  1. The vitality characteristic of youth.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      But it was not the sadness, nor indeed, strictly speaking, the infantileness of the face of Isabel which so singularly impressed him with the idea of her original and changeless youthfulness.

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