Usually means: Retaining juvenile traits into adulthood.
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  7. neotenous: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ adjective:  Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Babyfaced.

Similar:
neotenic, bradymorphic, tachymorphic, gerontomorphic, protandric, neotypal, heterotopous, fully-grown, pleisiomorphic, ontogenic, more...

Opposite:
mature, adult, fully developed, non-juvenile

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Similar:
neotenic, bradymorphic, tachymorphic, gerontomorphic, protandric, neotypal, heterotopous, fully-grown, pleisiomorphic, ontogenic, more...

Opposite:
mature, adult, fully developed, non-juvenile



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