adolescence

1. 1.

   the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood

   Broadertime of life

   Part ofyouth

   Partsgenital stagepuberty
2. 2.

   in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

   Broaderimmaturity

Other forms of adolescence

plural

adolescences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adolescence

What does adolescence mean?

adolescence means "the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adolescence?

adolescence has 4 syllables: ad-o-les-cence. The stress falls on "les". In IPA it is /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/.

Is adolescence a common word?

adolescence is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adolescence?

3 words rhyme with adolescence. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.