| Main Entry: | adolescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of puberty, preadulthood |
Synonyms: |
boyhood, girlhood, greenness, juvenility, minority, pubescence, spring, teens, youth, youthfulness |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
Antonyms: |
adulthood, infancy |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear, youth |
| Main Entry: | puberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young adulthood |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward stage, boyhood, girlhood, greenness, high-school years, juvenescence, juvenility, potency, preadolescence, pubescence, spring*, springtide, springtime, teenage years, teens, youth, youthfulness |
Antonyms: |
adulthood |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
Antonyms: |
adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | juvenescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenility, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | juvenility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
gray, gray, time, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, ancestral, anicular, anile, annotinous, annuated, antiquated, ayne, declining, decrepit, doited, effete, eigne, elder, eldest, epigonous, first, gerocomical, hoar, hoary, in years, insenescible, juvenescent, marked with a crow's foot, matronly, mellow, no chicken, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, older, oldest, past one's prime, patriarchal, quadragenarious, ripe, run to seed, senescent, senile, senior, silurian, stricken in years, superannuated, venerable, waning, wrinkled, years old
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| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
| Concept: | Youth. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom., cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage., prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.
-adjectives
young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged.
-phrases
"youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm" [Gray]; youth . . . the glad season of life" [Carlyle].
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Antonyms: |
age |
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