puerility

1. 1.

   the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

   Synonymschildhood

   Broaderimmaturity
2. 2.

   a property characteristic of a child

   Synonymschildishness

   Broaderyoungness

Other forms of puerility

plural

puerilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about puerility

What does puerility mean?

puerility means "the state of a child between infancy and adolescence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in puerility?

puerility has 4 syllables: pue-ri-li-ty. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for puerility?

Close synonyms include childhood, childishness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puerility a common word?

puerility is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.