Adolescence vs. Childhood — What's the Difference?

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.

The time or state of being a child.

The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to adulthood.

The early stage in the existence or development of something

A similar period in nonhuman animals, ending at sexual maturity.

The state of being a child.

A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase

The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.

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

(by extension) The early stages of development of something.

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.

The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

The time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood

Children, taken collectively.

In the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

The commencement; the first period.

The time of person's life when they are a child

The state of a child between infancy and adolescence