Adolescence
noun
The period in someone's life when they are changing from a child to an adult.
She had a lot of trouble during her adolescence.
Often appears as...
- early adolescence
- late adolescence
noun
In biology, the period in the life of an animal when it becomes sexually mature.
The lion cub's aggression is typical for animals in adolescence.
Often appears as...
- animal adolescence
- during adolescence
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noun
The period in someone's life when they are changing from a child to an adult.
She had a lot of trouble during her adolescence.
Often appears as...
- early adolescence
- late adolescence
noun
In biology, the period in the life of an animal when it becomes sexually mature.
The lion cub's aggression is typical for animals in adolescence.
Often appears as...
- animal adolescence
- during adolescence
Usage tips
Technical
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Turmoil
Adolescence often involves strong emotions and mood swings.
He experienced a rollercoaster of emotions throughout his adolescence.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variation
The age range and experiences of adolescence can vary widely between cultures.
In some cultures, adolescence begins with certain coming-of-age ceremonies.
Pro Tip 3/3Growth Spurts
Physical growth often accelerates during adolescence.
She grew several inches taller during her adolescence.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Turmoil
Adolescence often involves strong emotions and mood swings.
He experienced a rollercoaster of emotions throughout his adolescence.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variation
The age range and experiences of adolescence can vary widely between cultures.
In some cultures, adolescence begins with certain coming-of-age ceremonies.
Pro Tip 3/3Growth Spurts
Physical growth often accelerates during adolescence.
She grew several inches taller during her adolescence.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Turmoil
Adolescence often involves strong emotions and mood swings.
He experienced a rollercoaster of emotions throughout his adolescence.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variation
The age range and experiences of adolescence can vary widely between cultures.
In some cultures, adolescence begins with certain coming-of-age ceremonies.
Pro Tip 3/3Growth Spurts
Physical growth often accelerates during adolescence.
She grew several inches taller during her adolescence.
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How to raise a Black son...
That the whims of adolescence are too dangerous for your breath, that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someone's implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning. But this cannot be what defines us. Because we have parents who raised us to understand
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Success, failure and the...
but I found it in the most unlikely and unexpected place. I found it in lessons that I had learned earlier in life about how creativity can survive its own failure. So just to back up and explain, the only thing I have ever wanted to be for my whole life was a writer. I wrote all through childhood, all through adolescence,
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An algorithm for happily...
tales that tell us that love appears magically and adolescence we read romantic tragedies that tell us that love appears by faith now these might sound like fanciful fictions of our youth but researchers find that these beliefs that love is both delivered and ensured by faith continue well into
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Why are eating disorders...
experience eating disorders, people of all genders can be affected. As these disorders intimately affect the development of one’s identity and self-esteem, people are particularly vulnerable to developing them during adolescence. Although these are among the most challenging
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The biology of our best...
And thus, adolescence and early adulthood are the years where environment and experience sculpt your frontal cortex into the version you're going to have as an adult in that critical moment. But pushing back even further, even further back to childhood and fetal life
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Thoughts on humanity,...
So from that night onwards, much akin to humanity in its adolescence, I learned the crude tools of survival. And the framework of life was very, very simple then, to be honest. You know, you just ate what you got and did whatever you were told to do.
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How friendship affects...
I know my mom would say she has the phone bills to prove it. If it seems like friendships formed in adolescence are particularly special, that’s because they are. Early childhood, adolescent, and adult friendships all manifest a little differently
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No one can figure out...
And the entirety of their time in the rivers of Europe is essentially eel adolescence. So when do eels reproduce, and where do they do it? Despite its name, the life of a freshwater eel actually begins
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The Kangaroo is the...
in life no one knows exactly how or why they do this though the core bond of a mob revolves around clusters of females males usually wander off around adolescence so the sisterhood looks after itself
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How the worst moments in...
In my own adolescence, I went to extreme lengths to try to be straight. I enrolled myself in something called "sexual surrogacy therapy," in which people I was encouraged to call doctors
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How to raise a Black son...
That the whims of adolescence are too dangerous for your breath, that you cannot simply be curious, that you are not afforded the luxury of making a mistake, that someone's implicit bias might be the reason you don't wake up in the morning. But this cannot be what defines us. Because we have parents who raised us to understand
Video examples
Success, failure and the...
but I found it in the most unlikely and unexpected place. I found it in lessons that I had learned earlier in life about how creativity can survive its own failure. So just to back up and explain, the only thing I have ever wanted to be for my whole life was a writer. I wrote all through childhood, all through adolescence,
Video examples
An algorithm for happily...
tales that tell us that love appears magically and adolescence we read romantic tragedies that tell us that love appears by faith now these might sound like fanciful fictions of our youth but researchers find that these beliefs that love is both delivered and ensured by faith continue well into
Video examples
Why are eating disorders...
experience eating disorders, people of all genders can be affected. As these disorders intimately affect the development of one’s identity and self-esteem, people are particularly vulnerable to developing them during adolescence. Although these are among the most challenging
Video examples
The biology of our best...
And thus, adolescence and early adulthood are the years where environment and experience sculpt your frontal cortex into the version you're going to have as an adult in that critical moment. But pushing back even further, even further back to childhood and fetal life
Video examples
Thoughts on humanity,...
So from that night onwards, much akin to humanity in its adolescence, I learned the crude tools of survival. And the framework of life was very, very simple then, to be honest. You know, you just ate what you got and did whatever you were told to do.
Video examples
How friendship affects...
I know my mom would say she has the phone bills to prove it. If it seems like friendships formed in adolescence are particularly special, that’s because they are. Early childhood, adolescent, and adult friendships all manifest a little differently
Video examples
No one can figure out...
And the entirety of their time in the rivers of Europe is essentially eel adolescence. So when do eels reproduce, and where do they do it? Despite its name, the life of a freshwater eel actually begins
Video examples
The Kangaroo is the...
in life no one knows exactly how or why they do this though the core bond of a mob revolves around clusters of females males usually wander off around adolescence so the sisterhood looks after itself
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
In my own adolescence, I went to extreme lengths to try to be straight. I enrolled myself in something called "sexual surrogacy therapy," in which people I was encouraged to call doctors
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Jane Green
English Author
I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.
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John Berger
English Artist
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.
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Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
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Hugh Hefner
American Publisher
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.
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Ezra Miller
American Actor
I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of those characters have been troubled, tortured people. It's been a great way to navigate my adolescence by having these more troubled kids as an outlet.
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Jerry O'Connell
American Actor
When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.
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Harry Mathews
American Author
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
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Harold Bloom
American Critic
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Jane Green
English Author
I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.
Quote examples
John Berger
English Artist
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.
Quote examples
Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Quote examples
Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
Quote examples
Hugh Hefner
American Publisher
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.
Quote examples
Ezra Miller
American Actor
I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of those characters have been troubled, tortured people. It's been a great way to navigate my adolescence by having these more troubled kids as an outlet.
Quote examples
Jerry O'Connell
American Actor
When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.
Quote examples
Harry Mathews
American Author
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
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Harold Bloom
American Critic
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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