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adolescence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun adolescence has 2 senses
- adolescence(n = noun.time) - the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood; is a kind of time of life
- adolescence(n = noun.state) - in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood; is a kind of immatureness, immaturity
has parts: genital phase, genital stage, puberty, pubescence
is a part of youth
Derived forms verb adolesce1, adjective adolescent4, adjective adolescent2
Derived forms verb adolesce1, adjective adolescent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
adolescence, n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.].
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. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
adolescence
Adolescence
N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.
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