juvenilia

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
25
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒuːvɪˈniːljə/

Definition of juvenilia

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (plural, plural-only)Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
    “...rhyme was not his [Milton's] talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his "Juvenilia" or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,...”
    “Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.”
    “Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia, […]”
    “The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.”

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Etymology

From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”).

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