Adolescence

What do we mean by adolescence?

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. 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. 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. noun

The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity. noun

The time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood noun

In the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood noun

The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

The period of time in life in which your whole life is controlled by another human being. Urban Dictionary

The most supreme torture in a form that most humans can understand. Urban Dictionary

Childhood Urban Dictionary

The stage between being a teenager and an adult. Urban Dictionary

What I was before I became an adult urophiliac, meaning I derive erotic pleasure for being treated like a toilet. Urban Dictionary

THE most influential and kickass punk band to emerge from southern california. Urban Dictionary

The worst years of your life when your enimies are your friends your friends are your family and your family is you enimie. when girls freak out because they think having a pimple is acne and spend 50 grand on products to cover it up. when guys try to get in a girls pants before they even kissed the girl. just to be cool around their friends. when everything is a mess. homework piles to your head and you go on msn/aol/yahoo for atlease half of your day. when coke is not just a drink. skirts are pulled up to baerly cover the ass and pants are pulled down to show half your boxer. if your caught with your parents your social life is over. when people try to buy the most expensive things they can lay their hands on jsut to fit in. friends are backstabers and you life is just a living hell. so you make you life seem so perfect by partying every weekend and getting high. Urban Dictionary

A human between 10 and 20 Adolescence is a age to refer to a person starting adolescence starting at 10 and ending it at 21. This is the average age of puberty. Where kids are interacting with peers, getting embarrassed of moms and dads, confused about self identity, curiosity about sex, experimenting with alcohol, doing dumb things etc But not all pubescent children are adolescents all Adolescents are pubescent children. Urban Dictionary

Under appreciated Fullerton, CA skate punk band/supergroup. Their self titled is one of the best punk rock debuts ever released, but, unfortunately, they're largely glossed over in the modern rock vernacular for bands like the Dead Kennedys or Black Flag, both of whom enjoyed a larger measure of crossover success. Urban Dictionary

Another word for teenager Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to adolescence:
adolescence, adolescency, adolesence, adolescente, adolescent, adolescents, adolescences.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word adolescence:
adulthood, puberty, adolescents, adolescent, onset, maturity, developmental, childhood, peer, peers, cognitive, anxiety, teenage, teenager, psychological, teens, disorder, behavioral, adult, teen, adults, relationships, sexual, emotional, identity, mature, symptoms, memories, gender, alcohol, behavior, decrease, experiences, personality, brain, psychology, ages, drinking, abuse, girls, parents, tend, emerging, friendship, studied, youth, increases, studying, young, sex, transition, child.

Words that rhyme with adolescence:
quintessence, essence, acquiescence, obsolescence, senescence, evanescence, coalescence, convalescence, luminescence, crescence, in essence, phosphorescence, escence, of the essence, access since, address since, assess since, chess since, distress since, dress since, excess since, express since, guess since, less since, mess since, nevertheless since, nonetheless since, press since, process since, progress since, stress since, success since.

Adjectives that are often used to describe adolescence:
early, late, middle, pre, normal, female, male, prolonged, past, mid, perpetual, later, difficult, extended, troubled, post, protracted, stormy, awkward, turbulent, delayed, healthy, eternal, painful, rebellious, unhappy, happy, feminine, lonely, summary, tumultuous, vigorous, samoan, precocious, carefree, gay, belated, gawky, retarded, volume, miserable, premature, restless, exuberant, perennial, masculine, rocky, manly.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective adolescence:
limited, adolescents, period, puberty, fiction, ceremony, stage, years, the, united, onwards, study, limiteds, generating, youth, passage, girls, treatment.

Words that sound like adolescence:
adolescence, adolesence, adolescents, adolescency, adolescent, adolesent, adelson, calescence, adolescente, coalescence, opalescence, adolecent, catalysis, addison's, addisons, addison, adolesce, idolism, autolysis, edelson.