preadolescence

See also: préadolescence

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ adolescence.

Noun

preadolescence (uncountable)

1. The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about 9 and 11 for girls, and 10 and 12 for boys.
   • 2017, Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Bloomsbury Circus, page 270:

     Jojo gains what Pop’s lost of his bearing. First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.

Translations

the period between childhood and adolescence

• Esperanto: antaŭadoleskanteco
• French: préadolescence (fr) f
• German: Präadoleszenz (de) f
• Irish: réamhógántacht f
• Italian: preadolescenza (it) f
• Portuguese: pré-adolescência f