Definition of Adolescence

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Adolescence

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.

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Adolescence Quotations

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

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

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
Maya Lin

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
Winona Ryder

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Stanislav Grof

Adolescence Translations

adolescence in French is adolescent
adolescence in Hungarian is kamaszkor


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