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teenagery, n.|ˈtiːneɪdʒərɪ| [f. teenager n.2 + -y3: cf. -ery.] The period or state of being a teenager.
1960Punch 9 Mar. 346/2 We are richer, shrewder, and happier than our parents ever were during teenagery. 1964in Hamblett & Deverson Generation X 144 There wasn't teenagery then; youth was school-leaving, job, National Service, and then marriage. 1979Washington Post 9 Nov. f1/6 But he was pig-headed—steady-minded, if you prefer—even beyond the norm of teenagery. |