Similar words: adolescent, obsolescence, convalescence, acquiescence, pearlescent, condolence, descent, descend. Meaning: [‚ædəʊ'lesns] n. 1. the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood 2. in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood.
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31) The interest continues, even intensifies, during adolescence.
32) Adolescence is a period of great and rapid change.
33) Perhaps this is one reason why cigarette smoking is so attractive in adolescence.
34) Her hauntingly beautiful face seemed to perfectly encompass the vulnerability of adolescence.
35) She repeated what Rosalind Swain had said about odd things happening in adolescence, about adolescents harbouring poltergeists.
36) Most people regarded adolescence as some kind of Armageddon, a battle one was sure to lose.
37) Any genuinely orthodox unionist would have been a member since late adolescence!
38) These findings highlight the importance of peer pressures in adolescence.
39) In late adolescence and young adulthood, planning skills were in turn related to social functioning and parenting behaviour.
40) The children, like all others, grow up and pass through childhood into adolescence.
41) A woman laments that, having spent her adolescence in the camps, she was denied her teen-age years.
42) Some of the most vulnerable young people in care are those who are still away from home during their later adolescence.
43) The conventional way of looking at adolescence does, at any rate, emphasise some such division.
44) During adolescence, boys are sometimes very shy and lacking in self-confidence.
45) It was decided that the main thrust of the research should be in the domain of economic and political socialisation during adolescence.
46) Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind, along with its unfinished business.
47) As children reach adolescence, peer groups become a more significant influence.
48) From infancy through early adolescence, Semai children are largely unconstrained and free of external domination.
49) While it occurs most often in adolescence, the age of onset can range from pre-adolescence to middle age.
50) The amount of pigmentation tends to increase slightly with age up to adolescence and brings with it a gradual improvement in visual acuity.
51) He points to cultures, such as Samoa, where Margaret Mead found that there was little real adolescence.
52) His adolescence and young manhood had occurred in a vacuum.
53) How much attention do these programmes pay to the real dynamics of peer group pressures as they ebb and flow across adolescence?
54) We have seen that the principal intellectual characteristics of adolescence stem directly or indirectly from the development of formal structures.
55) By adolescence,(www.Sentencedict.com) they veer into selflessness and fear the criticism of peers.
56) My Gen X adolescence flashed before my eyes like a flip book of fuzzy Polaroids.
57) I wish she would show me how to get through homework and adolescence instead of just Christmas dinner for 40.
58) Alternately manic and twee, it has, instead, only the ugliness of wilfully arrested adolescence.
59) It does not seem to have had the same connotations as the contemporary concept of adolescence.
60) There are other, less common disturbances in childhood and adolescence, including childhood psychosis, the hyperkinetic syndrome and anorexia nervosa.
More similar words: adolescent, obsolescence, convalescence, acquiescence, pearlescent, condolence, descent, descend, coalesce, senescent, descended, quiescent, crescendo, descendant, condescend, decrescent, evanescent, iridescent, convalesce, fluorescent, descendants, effervescent, condescension, behind the scenes, fertile crescent, phosphorescent, violence, licence, prescience, insolence.