Adolescence vs Teen - What's the difference?
adolescence | teen |
The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.
(label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
*, III.5:
*:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
*:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
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*:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
*1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
*:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
*1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
*:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
*1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
*:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne
As nouns the difference between adolescence and teen
is that adolescence is the transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity while teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old or teen can be (label) grief, sorrow; suffering.As a verb teen is
(obsolete) to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure or teen can be (transitive|obsolete|provincial) to hedge or fence in; to enclose.adolescence
English
Noun
- During adolescence , the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.