Synonyms for adolescence
ˌæd lˈɛs ənsado·les·cence

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1. adolescencenoun

   Synonyms:
   teendom, teenhood

2. adolescencenoun

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

   During adolescence, the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.

   Synonyms:
   teendom, teenhood

Princeton's WordNet

1. adolescencenoun

   the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood

2. adolescencenoun

   in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

Matched Categories

1. • Immaturity
   • Time Of Life

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1. adolescencenoun

   Synonyms:
   youth, juvenility, minority, juniority, nonage, teens, prime of life, flower of life, bloom of life

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1. adolescencenoun

   Synonyms:
   nonage, juniority, minority, youth

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1. List of paraphrases for "adolescence":

   adolescents, adolescent, adolescencia, teenage, teen, teenager, teenagers, boyhood

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1. Kieran Dowd and colleagues:

   It is likely then that the child will continue to gain weight throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.

2. Isabel Morales-Munoz:

   We want to highlight that this is a very novel finding and this has not been reported before, thus there is no previous evidence to support these findings, and further research examining the specific stages of sleep development in childhood are needed, however, these findings might be explained by the fact that sleep highly varies in early childhood( compared to later stages, such as adolescence and adulthood), and that specific sleep patterns might have different significance and effects at specific stages of the child ´ s development.

3. John Ciardi:

   You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

4. Heather Hamner:

   One of the things that’s really important is these early dietary behaviors, this is really when kids are laying the foundation for some of those dietary behaviors, so starting out strong and making sure that they’re creating these healthy behaviors … that’s going to set them up as they go into adolescence and adulthood.

5. Alexander Springer:

   Generally speaking, minor forms of hypospadias may not be a major problem, we have to take care of children with severe hypospadias and follow them up to adolescence and beyond because we know that those are the ones that might need help and counseling later in life.