Adolescence

[ædə'les(ə)ns] or [,ædə'lɛsns]

Definition

(noun.) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood.

(noun.) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood.

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Definition

(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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Youth, juvenility, minority, juniority, nonage, teens, prime of life, flower of life, bloom of life.

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