Definitions for adolescence

adolescence ad·o·les·cence

Spelling: [ad-l-es-uh ns]
IPA: /ˌæd lˈɛs əns/

Adolescence is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 639 anagrams from letters in adolescence (accdeeelnos).

Definitions for adolescence

noun

  1. the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.
  2. the process or state of growing to maturity.
  3. a period or stage of development, as of a society, preceding maturity.

Origin of adolescence

1400-50; late Middle English Middle French Latin adolēscentia. See adolescent, -ence

Examples for adolescence

But as this was at adolescence, the unrest of the youth should not be taken too seriously.

adolescence, the Gymnasium or Latin school, from twelve to eighteen.

His smooth, rosy face had still the downy bloom of adolescence.

And that was the soul, very active in adolescence—like everything else.

(e) The fourth period of education begins at fifteen, the period of adolescence.

Across the globe, millions of boys and girls are betrothed so young they spend the majority of their adolescence already married.

The moral duties and doubts of adulthood are swapped out for the histrionic creeds of adolescence.

In adolescence they are reinforced by magazines, boyfriends, and the world around us.

The urge of adolescence carries them away out of our detaining hands.

Four years after its emergence as a political force, the Tea Party is now coping with its adolescence.

Word Value for adolescence
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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