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adolescence
noun as in state of puberty, preadulthood
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Kids approaching adolescence get a brief discussion about confidentiality.
And that was the soul, very active in adolescence—like everything else.
It goes back with me not to childhood so much as to late adolescence.
The moral duties and doubts of adulthood are swapped out for the histrionic creeds of adolescence.
Across the globe, millions of boys and girls are betrothed so young they spend the majority of their adolescence already married.
But it seems to me that with adolescence comes the right to knowledge and the right of judgment.
Dim, forgotten perils of adolescence come to my mind, as a cloud obscures the summer sun.
Unfortunately, the characteristics of the spoiled child do not vanish with childhood or even with adolescence.
The generation which numbered Bryan Dalyrimple drifted out of adolescence to a mighty fan-fare of trumpets.
Usually in early adolescence it bursts its casings and shoots into consciousness, powerfully affecting the emotions and the will.
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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to adolescence, such as: boyhood, teens, girlhood, greenness, juvenility, and minority.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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