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单词 adolescence
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Definition of adolescence in English:

adolescence

noun adəˈlɛs(ə)nsˌædəˈlɛsəns
mass noun
  • The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult.

    Mary spent her childhood and adolescence in Europe
    during adolescence teenagers often experience violent mood swings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He learnt to become an observer and a narrator because so much of his childhood and adolescence was spent in bed.
    • Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.
    • Born in Calcutta, Murray spent most of her childhood and adolescence in India.
    • Secondly, do symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescence predict cannabis use in young adults?
    • It should be kept in mind that these girls were still in the middle of adolescence.
    • Several models or theories have placed adolescence in a period of human development from birth to death.
    • Acne appears around the onset of puberty and runs a variable course till adolescence is over.
    • The apparent protective effect seemed to be greatest for sun exposure during childhood and early adolescence.
    • The story of his childhood and adolescence is similar to that of many young men who came from the northern part of Sri Lanka.
    • It's a book a lot of people read at school and strongly associate with their adolescence.
    • Young people who need ongoing specialist care beyond adolescence must transfer to adult services.
    • The legendary sensitivity of adolescence is a kind of self-absorption.
    • So what assumptions have many people here picked up in their childhood and adolescence?
    • He reports several years of drug and alcohol use through his adolescence and young adult years.
    • Teenage boys and women past adolescence also develop the condition, but this is less common.
    • Childhood and adolescence are essential periods of your life in which to learn the importance of physical activity.
    • Puberty is the first phase of adolescence, the time when sexual maturity becomes evident.
    • The rush of hormones associated with adolescence is why teenagers commonly suffer.
    • This only develops, with brain maturation, during childhood and adolescence.
    • Jenny's adolescence and adult life are, from the outside, quite ordinary.
    Synonyms
    teenage years, teens, youth, young adulthood, young days, early life
    pubescence, puberty
    rare juvenescence, juvenility

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin adolescentia, from adolescere 'grow to maturity' (see adolescent).

Rhymes

acquiescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, excrescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence
 
 

Definition of adolescence in US English:

adolescence

nounˌadəˈlesənsˌædəˈlɛsəns
  • The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult.

    Mary spent her childhood and adolescence in Europe
    during adolescence teenagers often experience violent mood swings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The legendary sensitivity of adolescence is a kind of self-absorption.
    • Young people who need ongoing specialist care beyond adolescence must transfer to adult services.
    • Puberty is the first phase of adolescence, the time when sexual maturity becomes evident.
    • Acne appears around the onset of puberty and runs a variable course till adolescence is over.
    • So what assumptions have many people here picked up in their childhood and adolescence?
    • Secondly, do symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescence predict cannabis use in young adults?
    • Born in Calcutta, Murray spent most of her childhood and adolescence in India.
    • This only develops, with brain maturation, during childhood and adolescence.
    • It should be kept in mind that these girls were still in the middle of adolescence.
    • Jenny's adolescence and adult life are, from the outside, quite ordinary.
    • The story of his childhood and adolescence is similar to that of many young men who came from the northern part of Sri Lanka.
    • It's a book a lot of people read at school and strongly associate with their adolescence.
    • The rush of hormones associated with adolescence is why teenagers commonly suffer.
    • Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.
    • Teenage boys and women past adolescence also develop the condition, but this is less common.
    • He learnt to become an observer and a narrator because so much of his childhood and adolescence was spent in bed.
    • The apparent protective effect seemed to be greatest for sun exposure during childhood and early adolescence.
    • Several models or theories have placed adolescence in a period of human development from birth to death.
    • Childhood and adolescence are essential periods of your life in which to learn the importance of physical activity.
    • He reports several years of drug and alcohol use through his adolescence and young adult years.
    Synonyms
    teenage years, teens, youth, young adulthood, young days, early life

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin adolescentia, from adolescere ‘grow to maturity’ (see adolescent).

 
 
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