teenageness

Definitions

The quality of being or being like a teenager.

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Examples

“Your teen experience⟳ is so central to what Zen Buddhists call⟳ “this great matter⟳ of birth and death,” that to be fully awake⟳ to your teenageness is to be a genuinely spiritual person.”

“I almost feel⟳ sorry for them but then I realize⟳ that their response to her teenageness is helping shape⟳ her for the future.”

“Mr. Avalon must have⟳ been near fifty now, but still some kind of feckless teenageness clung to him, in his lank, shining hair, his unbuttoned black shirts, the school-boyish way he'd kick⟳ back at his teaching desk, sneakers crossed on the tabletop.”

“I wish⟳ I hadn't resisted the magnetic pull⟳ of teenageness into that roiling heart of communal feeling.”

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