Meaning of ADOLESCENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `ad'lesuns
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- [n] in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
- [n] the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
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| | See Also: | | genital phase, genital stage, immatureness, immaturity, puberty, pubescence, time of life, youth | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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. Sometimes used with reference to the
lower animals.
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