different between preposterousness vs puerility
preposterousness
English
Etymology
preposterous +? -ness
Noun
preposterousness (uncountable)
- The quality of being preposterous.
Translations
preposterousness From the web:
- what does preposterousness
- what means preposterousness
puerility
English
Etymology
puerile +? -ity, from Middle French puérilité, from Latin puer?lit?s, from puer?lis (“childish, juvenile”), from puer (“boy”).
Noun
puerility (countable and uncountable, plural puerilities)
- The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
- That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is insipid or silly.
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago
- You treat his opinions (though he never thrusts them on you) about "the Church," and his duty, and the souls of his parishioners, with civil indifference, as much ado about nothing; and his rubrical eccentricities as puerilities.
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago
See also
- puerilism
puerility From the web:
- puerility meaning
- what does puerile mean
- what is puerility in literature
- what do puerility mean
- what does virility stand for
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