Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

youngness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: young-ness
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] he was conscious of a feeling which independently pronounced him her senior in point of Time, and Isabel a child of everlasting youngness."
"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 […]"
"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree English young Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English youngness From young + -ness.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

youngnesses (plural)

Questions

What does youngness mean?: The state or qualities of being young or youthful; youth.
Where does youngness come from?: Etymology tree English young Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English youngness From young + -ness.

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