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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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The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.
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The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.
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Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
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Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
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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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The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.
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of Youth
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