1. adolescence(n = noun.time) Array - the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood; Array
is a kind of time of life
is a part of youth
has parts: genital phase, genital stage, puberty, pubescence
Derived forms verb adolesce1, adjective adolescent4, adjective adolescent2
2. adolescence(n = noun.state) Array - in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood; Array
is a kind of immatureness, immaturity
Derived forms verb adolesce1, adjective adolescent1
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. [1913 Webster]
N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.