1. adolescence
Adolescence is often a period of insecurity.
I cannot look back on my adolescence without feeling depressed.
From the time he hit adolescence, I always had to fight the feeling that in his eyes I had somehow done something wrong.
‘Mary spent her childhood and adolescence in Europe’
Many youths come into conflict with their parents and regard them as their enemies rather than as their friends, especially during adolescence.
That very tune reminded me of my adolescence.
How long adolescence continues is determined by biological factors.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
The gesture of adolescence, which raves for this or that on one day with the ever-present possibility of damning it as idiocy on the next, is now socialized.