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Adolescence

Adolescence Meaning & Definition
Adolescence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Adolescence?

[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

Adolescence In Webster's Dictionary

\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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