• The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood;youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generallyconsidered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one.Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.


    Adolescence meaning & definition 1 of Adolescence.


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

    Adolescence meaning & definition 2 of Adolescence.


  • Adolescence meaning & definition 3 of Adolescence.


  • the stage between being a teenager and an adult.

    Adolescence meaning & definition 4 of Adolescence.


  • The [period] of [time in] life in which your whole life is controlled by another [human being].

    Adolescence meaning & definition 5 of Adolescence.


  • Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood. Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years, but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier or end later. Puberty typically begins during preadolescence, particularly in females. Physical growth and cognitive development can extend past the teens. Age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have not agreed upon a precise definition. Some definitions start as early as 10 and end as late as 26. The World Health Organization definition officially designates an adolescent as someone between the ages of 10 and 19.

    Adolescence meaning & definition 6 of Adolescence.

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