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Adolescent vs Teenage - What's the difference?

adolescent | teenage |

As adjectives the difference between adolescent and teenage

is that adolescent is characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature while teenage is of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

As nouns the difference between adolescent and teenage

is that adolescent is a teenager; a juvenile after puberty while teenage is brushwood for fences and hedges.

adolescent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Characteristic]] of, or relating to, or [[undergo, undergoing adolescence; immature.
  • * Cowper
    • Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.

    Related terms

    * adolescence * adult

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teenager; a juvenile after puberty.

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    teenage

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested circa 1700: teen (Kentish variant of tine: “enclose within a wattle fence”) (suffix forming abstract nouns).

    Noun

    (-)
  • Brushwood for fences and hedges.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)
    References
    * “ ?teenage n.''¹]” defined as a derived term of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50248204 teen, ''v.''²]”, listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1921: .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
    • Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
    Derived terms
    * (l) English terms with multiple etymologies