YOUNGNESS Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

youngness

noun

Definition of youngness

as in youth

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Noun

The movement was formed in May 2026 to protest the government’s cancellation of medical school entrance exams and after India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant likened unemployed youth to cockroaches.

— Amrita Basu, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026
Mohammed Annour spent much of his youth living in a flimsy shelter in a dusty, overcrowded refugee camp in east Africa, where the days were long, the food was poor and the future nonexistent.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of youth

Noun

Or, pair a playful texture like feathers or fringe with a more sophisticated top or blazer — the eye-catching fabric gives you just the right dash of youthfulness.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 11 Sep. 2026
The survey’s findings prioritizes being able to retain independence and cognitive strength over keeping an aesthetic of youthfulness.

— Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of youthfulness

Noun

At Garth Greenan, where more than forty of Drexler’s paintings and drawings from the sixties were on display, I was struck, once again, by the astonishing freshness and psychological bite of her work.

— Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
The range, the variety, the freshness, the ecstatic culture of experimentation.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of freshness

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