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adolescence
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Word definitions for adolescence in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adolescence \Ad`o*les"cence\, 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. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"age following childhood" (especially the period from the 15th to the 21st year), early 15c., from Middle French adolescence (14c.), from Latin adolescentia "youth," noun of state from adolescentem (see adolescent (n.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
Usage examples of adolescence.
During adolescence, humans experiment intensely with new intimate relationships, especially opposite sex relationships.
They will find that this same procedure will be of the greatest value in the period of change that lies ahead, the years of adolescence, which we examine in the next chapter.
They feel they may as well drift along through adolescence and wait for the light to turn green.
In adolescence the feelings of the Child replay in greatly amplified form as the hormones turn on and as the adolescent turns away from his parents as the principal source of stroking to his own age group for stroking of a new kind.
Parents who are sensitive to this unstated plea and who, through acts of love, concern, restraint, and respect, demonstrate repeatedly It Is You We Care About will find the years of adolescence can produce rewards and surprises far beyond their expectations.
Her childhood and adolescence had been full enough of taps on the phone, cars across the street, name-calling and fights in school.
And he drew from recollection, the raw enthusiasm of his adolescence, when ideals were a substitute for judgment, life was play, and the future entailed nothing more lively than horse raids and begetting children.
The beginning of his adolescence coincided with a period of social change.
A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal.
He had no friends, he was terrified of girls, his entire adolescence was a disaster.
This was not true of his adolescence, which was a rich seam of memories and formative experiences.
In many primitive societies, sexual initiation was a natural thing that took place early in adolescence under the supervision of the tribal elders.
Her adolescence was too short for her to have any precise memories of it.
I talked to him about my adolescence, and a lot about the massage parlors.
Toward the end of her adolescence, her life had speeded up, then there had been a long dull period.