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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adolescence \Ad`o*les"cence\, n. [Fr., fr L. adolescentia.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
adolescence
n 1: the time of life between puberty and adulthood
2: in the state between puberty and adulthood
more about adolescence
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