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adolescences

adolescences is the plural of adolescence.

Meaning of adolescence

Noun

adolescence (countable and uncountable, plural adolescences)

  1. The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity, beginning at the onset of puberty and with an endpoint defined either legally (at the age of majority, such as 18 in many jurisdictions) or psychocognitively (at various ages, depending on individual experience).
    • Near-synonyms: teenagehood, teenhood, teenagerhood, teenagedom, teenagerdom, teendom

Questions about adolescences

What is adolescences the plural of?
Adolescences is the plural of adolescence.

Words near adolescences in the dictionary

  1. Adohi
  2. adolapin
  3. adolesce
  4. adolesced
  5. adolescence
  6. adolescences
  7. adolescency
  8. adolescent
  9. adolescently
  10. adolescents
  11. adolesces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adolescences (page history and authors); adolescence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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