adolescence
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- noun
- /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/
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adolescencia
- Many physical and emotional changes occur during adolescence, making it a challenging time for young people.
- childhood and adolescence
- early adolescence
- late adolescence
What lies beyond the clinic, beyond a diagnosis, beyond loss, adolescence, or even graduation.
- What lies beyond the clinic, beyond a diagnosis, beyond loss, adolescence, or even graduation.
- It's higher in men than women, peaks in adolescence like late late adolescence and declines with age.
- I think it was an important part of my childhood and adolescence and early adulthood.
- And then adolescence became a clear new news or life stage.
- People who were fluent bilinguals after adolescence didn't react very strongly to those swear words.
- So it was really my story of my, my own adolescence.
- We also have to ask if Graciela will be able to come out of adolescence as a healthy young adult.
- No, she was sexually abused by her grandfather all throughout her childhood and adolescence.
- That's not just adolescence, A lot of depression.
- My kids a narcissist to say, yeah, this is this is adolescence and.
Examples
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No matter how much we think that we are the best in the world, we are actually going through the early part of our adolescence as a nation.
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One participant described her rebellious adolescence: "When I was 14, I started running away from home."
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Lack of a strong authority figure in adolescence.
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By taking on the traditional challenges of adolescence.
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It's often seen in early adolescence.
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Adolescence is a difficult time.
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The wounds of adolescence can take years to heal.
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Now, as your own parents have probably told you, in adolescence our bodies tend to betray us.
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One male participant in early adolescence emphasized the value in "finding the good side of things."
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As children approach adolescence, their rigid notions of appropriate behavior according to gender return.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
How Old
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Surface Forms
Morphology
adolescence = adolescent (transparent) = adolescent + ence
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ence' to 'adolescent'; the meaning 'the state or period of being adolescent' is directly derived and easily inferable.
Etymology
Adolescence comes from the Latin verb adolescere, which means 'to grow up', and it is the same root that gave us the word adult. So, adolescence is the period when a person is growing from a child toward being an adult.