adolescence

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

youth puberty youthfulness teenage years prime bloom age majority spring minority childhood maturity infancy teenage juvenile
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Antonyms

age majority eld evening afternoon maturity
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Hypernyms

immaturity immatureness time of life

Related terms

adolescent

Phrases with the word

age of adolescence

Examples

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. Uma Thurman

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think. Camille Paglia

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. Jules Feiffer

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice. Quentin Crisp

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn. William James

Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection. André Maurois

Close letter words and terms

adogmatic adolapin adolesce adolescency adolescent adolescent activism