Youth vs. Adolescence

Youthnoun

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

Youthnoun

(uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

Youthnoun

(countable) A young person.

Youthnoun

(countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

Youthnoun

Young persons, collectively.

Youthnoun

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

Youthnoun

The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.

Youthnoun

A young person; especially, a young man.

Youthnoun

Young persons, collectively.

Youthnoun

a young person (especially a young man or boy)

Youthnoun

young people collectively;

Youthnoun

the time of life between childhood and maturity

Youthnoun

early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

Youthnoun

an early period of development;

Youthnoun

the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Youthnoun

the period between childhood and adult age

Youthnoun

the qualities of vigour, freshness, or immaturity as associated with being young

Youthnoun

an early stage in the development of something

Youthnoun

a young man

Youthnoun

young people considered as a group

Youth

Youth is the time of life when one is young, and often means the time between childhood and adulthood (maturity). It is also defined as .

Adolescencenoun

The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

Adolescencenoun

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.

Adolescencenoun

the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood

Adolescencenoun

in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

Adolescence

Adolescence (from Latin adolescere 'to grow up') is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood (age of majority). Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years, but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later.