MetaGlossary.com: Adolescent

Keywords: Puberty, Childhood, Juvenile, Maturity, Puerile

Related Terms: Childhood, Adolescence, Adult, Autism, Boy, Chaperon , Chick, Girl, IngéNue, Jejune, Juvenile, Mate, Maturity, Missy, Ontogeny, Pederasty, Precocious, Puberty, Teens, Tomboy, Wench, Young, Anorgasmia, Neoteny, Genital Stage, Courtship, Critical Period, Attachment Disorder, Psychosexual Development, Oral Stage, Sexual Dysfunction, Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Paedomorphosis, Grow, Asperger's Syndrome, Phallic Stage, Chicken , Sissy, Castration Anxiety, Bishoujo, Bishounen, Female Sexual Arousal Disorder, Shounen-Ai, Develop, Infantilism, Inhibited Sexual Desire, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Developmental, Developmental Disabilities

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Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

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Period of life from puberty to maturity.

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a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

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relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"

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displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"

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in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"

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one who is in the developmental period called adolescence. A young person in the midst of major biological changes leading to sexual maturity. An individual in the "in between" phase between childhood and adulthood.

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