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Youth vs Juvenilia - What's the difference?

youth | juvenilia |

As nouns the difference between youth and juvenilia

is that youth is (lb) the quality or state of being young while juvenilia is (literature|pluralonly) works produced during an artist's or author's youth.

youth

English

(wikipedia youth)

Noun

  • (lb) The quality or state of being young.
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  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
  • (lb) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
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    • , volume=101, issue=1, page=62, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Father of Fractals , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
  • (lb) A young person.
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  • (lb) A young man.
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  • *:and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.
  • (lb) (used in plural form ) Young persons, collectively.

    • Synonyms

    * (quality or state of being young) juvenility, youthfulness * (young person) adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster * (young man) boy, young man * adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters

    Antonyms

    * (quality or state of being young) age, dotage, old age, senility * (young person) adult, grown-up

    Derived terms

    * fountain of youth * middle youth, mid youth * yoof * youth club * youth culture * youthful * youth hostel * youth worker * youthly * youthy

    Related terms

    * young

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    juvenilia

    English

    Noun

    (head) juvenilia plural'' or ''collective singular
  • (literature, pluralonly) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
  • * 1693, John Dryden, A Discourse on the Origin and Progress of Satire [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615]
    • ...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,...
  • * 1996, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0880706953&id=p4Ct2oXIV1cC&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&sig=FmJe9w-3M3oUVxERvt9MsVbWsXI]
    • Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.
  • * 1997, Susan Anne Carlson, “Incest and Rage in Charlotte Brontë’s Novelettes,” in Creating Safe Space, Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp edd. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0791435636&id=CdGYa3MP9hQC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&sig=LbohnhDBym_lTZJGEMWSe-lbTRs]
    • Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia , [...]
  • * 2003, James Fenton, The Strength of Poetry [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199261393&id=dkcHDVjtFd4C&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=4qdf2Ca51857ZQVZuM3yKAPQTc4]
    • The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia .
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