noun. The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to adulthood.

noun. A similar period in nonhuman animals, ending at sexual maturity.

noun. A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase.

noun. The state of growing; specifically, youth, or the period of life between puberty and the full development of the frame, extending in man from about the age of fourteen years to twenty-five, and in woman from twelve to twenty-one: applied almost exclusively to the young of the human race.

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

noun. the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood

noun. in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

"I have a theory that what we call adolescence, in terms of behavioural peculiarities and possibly cognitive difficulties are a product of a very soft, modern, Western society, rather than a definite stage of human development."

topographic adolescence  

adolescent  

immatureness  immaturity  time of life  

acquiescence  coalescence  convalescence  essence  evanescence  

adulthood  babyhood  boyhood  childhood  decadence  

teendom  teenhood  youth