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語源

From 中期英語 adolescence, from Old French adolescence, from Latin adolēscentia, from adolēscēns (“young”); see adolescent.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/
• (Australian) IPA: /ˌædəˈlesəns/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌɛdəˈlesəns/

名詞

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).

   Synonym: hog age (US, rare, dated, informal)

   Coordinate terms: childhood, preteenhood, young adulthood, adulthood, middle age, seniorhood, elderhood

   Near-synonyms: teenagehood, teenhood, teenagerhood, teenagedom, teenagerdom, teendom

   During adolescence, the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.

   • 2020 August 5, Francesca Spinelli, “Meet David: born in France, raised in Belgium, facing removal to the DRC”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 5 January 2021:

     So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.

使用する際の注意点

• While adolescence is mostly interchangeable with teendom and teenhood, as it happens during ages ending in -teen, this correspondence is not absolute, so adolescence can be understood as a broader or narrower term depending on the context.

派生語

関連する語

• adolescent

Further reading

• “adolescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “adolescence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.