| 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 |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
Antonyms: |
adulthood |
| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, juniority, juvenility, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age, youth |
Antonyms: |
adulthood |
| Main Entry: | fertility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | readiness to bear, produce |
Synonyms: |
abundance, copiousness, fecundity, feracity, fruitfulness, generative capacity, gravidity, luxuriance, plentifulness, potency, pregnancy, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, puberty, pubescence, richness, uberty, virility |
Antonyms: |
aridity, childlessness, emptiness, infertility, sterility |
| Main Entry: | prime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; spring |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, aurora, dawn, daybreak, dew, greenness, juvenility, morn, morning, opening, puberty, pubescence, springtime, start, sunrise, sunup, tender years, vitality, youth, youthfulness |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, end |
| 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: | productiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fertility |
Synonyms: |
abundance, copiousness, fecundity, feracity, fruitfulness, generative capacity, gravidity, luxuriance, plentifulness, potency, pregnancy, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness, puberty, pubescence, richness, uberty, virility |
| Main Entry: | prolificacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fertility |
Synonyms: |
abundance, copiousness, fecundity, feracity, fruitfulness, generative capacity, gravidity, luxuriance, plentifulness, potency, pregnancy, productiveness, productivity, prolificity, prolificness, puberty, pubescence, richness, uberty, virility |