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adolescence

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ad·o·les·cence  (dl-sns)
n.
1. The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity.
2. A transitional period of development between youth and maturity: the adolescence of a nation.
adolescence
Noun
the period between puberty and adulthood [Latin adolescere to grow up]
adolescence  (dl-sns)
The period of physical and psychological development from puberty to the onset of adulthood.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.adolescenceadolescence - the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
genital phase, genital stage - (psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual activity
youth - the time of life between childhood and maturity
puberty, pubescence - the time of life when sex glands become functional
2.adolescenceadolescence - in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
immatureness, immaturity - not having reached maturity
adolescence
noun teens, youth, minority, boyhood, girlhood, juvenescence
Translations
adolescence [ædəuˈlɛsns] n → adolescencia
adolescence [ædəuˈlɛsns] n → adolescence f
adolescence [ædəuˈlɛsns] n → Jugend f
adolescence [ædəuˈlɛsns] n → adolescenza


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I was in the flower of my adolescence, a-thrill with romance and adventure, dreaming of wild life in the wild man- world.
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It would have caused an acute agony to thrill from the morning twilight, all the day through, until bedtime; and even then would have mingled a dull, inscrutable pain and pallid hue of misfortune with the visionary bloom and adolescence of his slumber.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
After a wild youth, he had retired into a convent, there to expiate, at least for some time, the follies of adolescence.
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