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PUERILITY
Definition of PUERILITY
noun
The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
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Other senses
PUERILITY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A puerile character or condition; boyishness; childishness.
noun
The time of childhood; specifically, in civil law, the period of life from the age of seven years to that of fourteen.
noun
That which is puerile; what is characteristic of or done in boyhood; hence, a childish or silly act, thought, or expression.
noun
The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.
Where it comes from
From Middle English puerilite, from Middle French puérilité and its etymon Latin puerīlitās, from puerīlis (“childish, juvenile”), from puer (“boy”). By surface analysis, puerile + -ity.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUERILITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 91 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUERILITY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EIILPRTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PUERILITY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PUERIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found PUERILITY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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