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Synonyms for puerility
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pyoo-uh-ril-i-tee, pyoo-ril- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌpyu əˈrɪl ɪ ti, pyʊˈrɪl- |
Top 10 synonyms for puerility Other synonyms for the word puerility
- asininity
- babyishness
- battiness
- brainlessness
- callowness
- childish behavior
- childishness
- coquetting
- dallying
- doltishness
- fatuity
- fatuousness
- feeble-mindedness
- flightiness
- flippancy
- flirting
- flummery
- folly
- fribble
- frippery
- frivolousness
- fun
- gaiety
- game
- giddiness
- greenness
- imbecility
- imperfection
- imprudence
- inaneness
- inanity
- incapacity
- incompleteness
- ineptitude
- inexpertness
- infantilism
- injudiciousness
- insensibility
- jest
- lightheartedness
- lightness
- nitwittedness
- obtuseness
- play
- puerility
- rawness
- senselessness
- shallowness
- silliness
- simplicity
- slowness
- sluggishness
- sport
- stolidity
- stupefaction
- stupidity
- stupidness
- stupor
- superficiality
- thick-headedness
- toying
- trifling
- triviality
- volatility
- weak-mindedness
- weakness
- whimsicality
- whimsy
Définition of puerility
Origin :- late 15c., from Middle French puérilité (15c.), from Latin puerilitatem (nominative puerilitas) "childishness," from puerilis "boyish, youthful; childish, trivial, silly," from puer "child, boy," from PIE *pau- (1) "few, little," with sense extended to "small, young" (cf. Latin putus "boy," Sanskrit putrah "son, boy," Avestan puthra- "son, child;" see few (adj.)).
- As in immaturity : noun inexperience
- As in stupidity : noun dullness of mind
- As in silliness : noun folly
- As in inexperience : noun lack of experience
- As in frivolity : noun silliness, childishness
- They lavish their strength, their puerility, and their anger.
- Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
- We can infer this from the signs of puerility of certain legends.
- Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot
- But the passengers might surely be as alive to the puerility as any one else.
- Extract from : « The Town » by Leigh Hunt
- It has bad English, bad verse, and puerility; but is not indelicate.
- Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 115, January 10, 1852 » by Various
- They began their sitting in puerility; they terminated their decrees in blood!
- Extract from : « Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II » by Various
- In brief, there is no puerility that is not at home in this sphere of misbegotten effort.
- Extract from : « Ponkapog Papers » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- We are perfectly convinced of the puerility of it all, but that does not help us in the least to mend it.
- Extract from : « Character and Conduct » by Various
- Her tone calls him back to a sense of the ungentleman-likeness and puerility of his conduct.
- Extract from : « Alas! » by Rhoda Broughton
- The puerility of garb and ceremonial was lost in the significance of the result.
- Extract from : « Caybigan » by James Hopper
- There was a childishness, a puerility about it that made the men smile.
- Extract from : « Caybigan » by James Hopper
Antonyms for puerility
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