Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to adulthood.
- noun A similar period in nonhuman animals, ending at sexual maturity.
- noun A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of growing; specifically, youth, or the period of life between puberty and the full development of the frame, extending in man from about the age of fourteen years to twenty-five, and in woman from twelve to twenty-one: applied almost exclusively to the young of the human race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
transitional period ofphysical andpsychological development betweenchildhood andmaturity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
- noun in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have a theory that what we call adolescence, in terms of behavioural peculiarities and possibly cognitive difficulties are a product of a very soft, modern, Western society, rather than a definite stage of human development.
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Yes, adolescence is a volatile time, and yes, adolescents (of ALL genders, thank you) develop obsessive and incredibly intense romantic attachments to all kinds of people who do not have their best interests at heart, and no, we don't have a problem with books willing to tackle those kinds of relationships head-on.
Today's Book Review 2009
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That abstract hope may help some of these teens, but one of the defining characteristics of adolescence is not seeing the long-term picture.
Alex Blaze: LGBT People Need to Take the Fight Back to School Alex Blaze 2010
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I am tired of the misplaced shame I feel sometimes when I think about my own sexuality, my desires, my mistakes, my brokenness, the memories I have of humiliation in adolescence and beyond.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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I am tired of the misplaced shame I feel sometimes when I think about my own sexuality, my desires, my mistakes, my brokenness, the memories I have of humiliation in adolescence and beyond.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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Apparently, adolescence is awkward for humans and birds alike.
Chicken Update Sarah Lenz 2009
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A young girl (Kendell Moorehead) moves from Chicago to the outskirts of Atlanta, provoking all the neccessary angst and anxiety of being uprooted during adolescence from the place she's grown up.
Rabid Reads "Ghost Huntress: The Awakening" by Marley Gibson 2009
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Toilet training gets mucked with in adolescence leading to public toilet fixation and George Michael style Father Figure psychological transference problems.
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A young girl (Kendell Moorehead) moves from Chicago to the outskirts of Atlanta, provoking all the neccessary angst and anxiety of being uprooted during adolescence from the place she's grown up.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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To answer your other question, I think women often lose themselves in adolescence because of boys -- because of our desire to shape ourselves so that they will be attracted to us, and because boys sort of take over in general.
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