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. Eric Hoffer:

   Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

2. James Steyer:

   I just think that it should be a complete wake-up call to every parent, educator, policymaker, business person (and) tech industry person that the reshaping of our media tech landscape is first and foremost affecting young people's lives and reshaping childhood and adolescence.

3. 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.

4. Meng Wanzhou:

   Throughout her childhood, I was in the military, which means that each year I was away for 11 months, spending one month with my family, our connection during her childhood and adolescence was not that strong.

5. Kieran Dowd and colleagues:

   If mothers do not currently perceive their child’s weight as problematic, they are less likely to seek or implement any intervention to address this, it is likely then that the child will continue to gain weight throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.