youthfulness

youthful | American Dictionary

youthful
adjective
us/ˈjuθ·fəl/
characteristic of young people, or relating to the period of life when you are young:
Her youthful enthusiasm always makes her seem ageless.

youthfulness

noun[ U ]us/ˈjuθ·fəl·nəs/
Her voice has just the right mix of maturity (= a quality like that of an adult) and youthfulness.

Examples of youthful

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The ' mask of ageing ' hypothesis posits a youthful self trapped inside an ageing mask.
How does a movement discipline the youthful ' lumpens ' who are most likely to be its first adherents ?
After an initial period of unease, the participants gradually came to terms with the growing divergence of their bodily appearance from youthful norms of beauty.
The youthful experience may have also inclined him toward a more conciliatory disposition.
People are increasingly overwhelmed with messages of youthful ideals : how to stay young or how to get old without signs of ageing.
Whether there is a biological risk attached to youthful paternity too is less clear.
Youthful femininity was fundamentally shaped by the demands of the labour market upon the working-class family.
The typical volunteer was not only youthful but also unmarried.
Many women argued that appearing more youthful allowed them to compete for significant others, meaningful employment and social recognition.
The ageing mask, it is argued, intrudes between the youthful self and a consumer culture that offers considerable flexibility of identity.
Though magnetohydrodynamics has come of age, it is still too youthful and volatile at this stage for such a text to be timely.
Rather than contributing to a "persistent critique of colonialism," the moments of youthful colonial fantasy explore the pervasiveness and variety of colonial discourses.
She shows no fondness for her own youthful innocence and betrays downright hostility toward her own child.
Many participants proposed social norms that corresponded with older rather than youthful images of beauty.
The persona hypothesis suggests a matured inner identity wearing a mask that can evoke a more youthful façade.
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