Dictionary Entry
adolescence
adolescence is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
- 3noun
the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
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