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Adolescence

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.

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Immatureness 76% connected

The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.

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Immaturity 76% connected

The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

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Adolescent 74% connected

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

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Adolescent 74% connected

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

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Puberty 70% connected

The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years…

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Pubescence 70% connected

The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.

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Youth 70% connected

of Youth

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-hood unknown · 78% connection

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it…

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Archaean noun · 78% connection

The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of…

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Beardless adjective · 78% connection

Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

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Boy noun · 78% connection

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

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Bull noun · 78% connection

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Catamenia noun · 78% connection

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease noun · 78% connection

a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the…

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Corniferous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

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Flow noun · 78% connection

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

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Green superl. · 78% connection

Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.

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Growth noun · 78% connection

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…

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Hebe noun · 78% connection

The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had…

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Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy noun · 78% connection

a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the…

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Horse noun · 78% connection

The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

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Infancy noun · 78% connection

The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

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Latency period noun · 78% connection

(psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated i…

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Latency phase noun · 78% connection

(psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated i…

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