A good word to use instead of under-age or adolescent.
By the way, why aren't people in their nonage called nonagenarians?
Yuk, yuk.
Sorry,
Slava
Nonage
Thanks for nonage, Slava.
NOUN: 1. The period during which one is legally underage. 2. A period of immaturity: “The bravest achievements were always accomplished in the nonage of a nation” (Thomas Paine).
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English nounage, from Anglo-Norman, variant of Old French nonaage : non-, non- + aage, age; see age.
Slogging through the etymological labyrinth, I find that the ne- origin of the "non" part also contributed to naughty and renegade, also descriptions of immaturity.
-gailr
Is that why NO! is the favorite word of two-year-olds?
NOUN: 1. The period during which one is legally underage. 2. A period of immaturity: “The bravest achievements were always accomplished in the nonage of a nation” (Thomas Paine).
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English nounage, from Anglo-Norman, variant of Old French nonaage : non-, non- + aage, age; see age.
Slogging through the etymological labyrinth, I find that the ne- origin of the "non" part also contributed to naughty and renegade, also descriptions of immaturity.
-gailr
Is that why NO! is the favorite word of two-year-olds?
and yet nonagenarian means being of great age, in the nineties..
mark stoop-ed-with-age Bailey
or
mark Acrocephalic-he-with-the-pointy-head Bailey
Just thought y'all might enjoy what that little insignificant "n" did in the middle of this word.non·a·ge·nar·i·an (nn-j-nâr-n, nn-)
n.
A person 90 years old or between 90 and 100 years old.
mark stoop-ed-with-age Bailey
or
mark Acrocephalic-he-with-the-pointy-head Bailey
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