adolescence

From Middle English adolescence, from Old French adolescence, from Latin adolescentia, from adolescens (“young”); see adolescent.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/

• Homophone: adolescents

adolescence (countable and uncountable, plural adolescences)

1. The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

   During adolescence, the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.

   Synonyms: teendom, teenhood

• adolescent

• adolescence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• adolescence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• IPA^(key): [ˈadolɛst͡sɛnt͡sɛ]

adolescence n

1. adolescence

   Synonym: dospívání

• adolescence in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• adolescence in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Latin adulēscentia. See also adolescent +‎ -ence

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃s/

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adolescence f (plural adolescences)

1. adolescence

• préadolescence

• puberté

• “adolescence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Late 13th century, borrowed from Latin adolescentia.

adolescence f (oblique plural adolescences, nominative singular adolescence, nominative plural adolescences)

1. adolescence