Childhood vs Juvenile - What's the difference?
childhood | juvenile |
(uncountable) The state of being a child.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (by extension) The early stages of development of something.
* Shakespeare
a prepubescent child
a person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence
an animal that is not sexually mature
an actor playing a child's role
As a noun childhood
is (uncountable) the state of being a child.As an adjective juvenile is
youthful; young.childhood
English
Noun
(en noun)Terrie Moffitt] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/richie-poulton et] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/avshalom-caspi al.
Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control, passage=To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.}}
citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood .}}
- the childhood of our joy