Teens vs Adolescence - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between teens and adolescence

is that teens is while adolescence is the transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

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(plural only) The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.

The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.

(plural only) The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old.

She is in her teens.

(plural only) The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.

* {{quote-book, title=Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979)

, chapter=The 20th Century's aughts and teens : OPERETTA , author=Michael G Cunningham , year=2010}}

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

During adolescence , the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.

* teendom * teenhood

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