Adolescence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity.
  • n. A transitional period of development between youth and maturity: the adolescence of a nation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of growing; specifically, youth, or the period of life between puberty and the full development of the frame, extending in man from about the age of fourteen years to twenty-five, and in woman from twelve to twenty-one: applied almost exclusively to the young of the human race.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
  • n. in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    time of life    immatureness    immaturity   
    Cross Reference
    topographic adolescence   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    youth    teenhood    teendom   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acquiescence    coalescence    convalescence    essence    evanescence   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adulthood    puberty    womanhood    infancy    boyhood   
     
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