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

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Carol Burnett

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
Nora Ephron

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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 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

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
Joe Baca

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
Deborah Bull

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

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

Adolescence Translations

adolescence in French is adolescent
adolescence in Hungarian is kamaszkor

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