Ăd'o-lĕs'cence or Ăd'o-lĕs'cen-cy, n.

n. [Fr. adolescence, Lat. adolescentia.] The state of growing, applied to the young of the human race; youth, or the period of life between puberty and that at which the body acquires its full development, including the years between the years of 14 and 25 in man, and of 12 and 21 in woman. Dunglison.