The period of time when you physically and emotionally transition from childhood to adulthood is called adolescence. Basically it's when you're old enough to want to be an adult, but young enough that no one takes you seriously!
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
Noun
in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
Noun
the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
n.
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or
womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity,
generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to
twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
Adolescence
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
Usage Examples
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
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Other Usage ExamplesAdolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
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