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ADOLESCENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("adolescence" is a kind of...):
immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)
Derivation:
adolesce (become adolescent; pass through adolescence)
adolescent (relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("adolescence" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Meronyms (parts of "adolescence"):
genital phase; genital stage ((psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual activity)
puberty; pubescence (the time of life when sex glands become functional)
Holonyms ("adolescence" is a part of...):
youth (the time of life between childhood and maturity)
Derivation:
adolesce (become adolescent; pass through adolescence)
adolescent (in the state of development between puberty and maturity)
adolescent (being of the age 13 through 19)
Context examples:
A category of psychiatric disorders which includes disorders most commonly identified in infancy, childhood, or adolescence.
(Pediatric Psychiatric Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
The transient diabetes mellitus lasts for weeks or months and may return in adolescence or in adulthood.
(Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus, NCI Thesaurus)
Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
(Mental Health, NIH)
The genetic abnormality results in a defect in the osteoclastic activity at the metaphyseal ends of the bone during the remodeling process in childhood or early adolescence.
(Hereditary Multiple Exostoses, NCI Thesaurus)
A transitional time in an individual's life between adolescence and early adulthood.
(Late Adolescence, NCI Thesaurus)
I haven't read him since adolescence, and all I read then was his 'Education.'
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that is manifested in childhood or early adolescence.
(Antisocial Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Adolescence and young adulthood is an important time in a person’s development.
(Young people at risk of addiction show differences in key brain region, University of Cambridge)
These babies have higher death rates even into adolescence and beyond.
(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)
The switch from childhood to adolescence brought about neurobiological, psychological and neuro-adaptive changes, which happen at the same time as important physical and hormonal transformations.
(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)
