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/ˌædəlˈɛsəns/ /ˌædoʊlˈɛsəns/ Listen

Adolescence

noun

The time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood.

In the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood.

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"Adolescence" Quotes from Famous Books

... insensee d'absurdites et de depredations.' So wrote the amazing poet of the Saison d'Enfer amid those futile turmoils of petty commerce, in which, with an inexplicable deliberation, he had forgotten the enchantments of an unparalleled adolescence, forgotten the fogs of London and the streets of Brussels, forgotten Paris, forgotten the subtleties and the frenzies of inspiration, forgotten the agonised ...

— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey

... far given by scientists are limited to the emotion as it is manifested in the adult. A few writers have referred to it in dealing with the psychology of adolescence, but in this connection refer to it as one of the many ways in which the adolescent spirit shows its intensity, turbulence and capriciousness. I know of no scientist who has given a careful analysis of the emotion as it is seen in the adolescent. It is true that it has been the chosen theme ...

— A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes • Sanford Bell

Words linked to "Adolescence" : adolesce, immaturity, adolescent, immatureness, genital stage, genital phase, pubescence, time of life, puberty, youth