youngness

Example Sentences

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“You hear a youngness when you listen to these songs,” says musicologist Lily Hirsch, author of “Can’t Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023

Humphries said Seau "brought out a lot of youngness" in older players.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2012

Coles found that youngness is the key to successful desegregation.

From Time Magazine Archive

His youngness and single-mindedness were obvious enough, but perhaps his general demeanor altogether lacked, or had too little of, that sort of cute solemnity that many adults readily speak up, or down, to.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Her mother was young, for wasn't that yearning note in her voice; that tentative little gesture; her whole questioning attitude, all her seekings, but expressions of her youngness?

From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Blake, Emily Calvin