nonage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: non=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

nonage, n. [LL. nonagium, from L. nonus ninth, novem nine.].

 The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes.  Mozley & W.  [1913 Webster]

nonage, n. [Pref. non- + age.].

 Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.  [1913 Webster]
"The human mind . . . was still in its nonage."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nonage, n.
1 hist. the state of being under full legal age, minority.
2 a period of immaturity.

Etymology

ME f. AF nounage, OF nonage (as NON-, AGE)

THESAURUS

nonage

Nina from Carolina, callowness, dewiness, ennead, enneastyle, freshness, greenness, immaturity, inexperience, infancy, juiciness, juniority, minority, nine, nonagon, nonuplet, novena, rawness, sappiness, undevelopment, unripeness

ROGET THESAURUS

nonage

Youth

N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.