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Teenage vs Puberty - What's the difference?

teenage | puberty |

As nouns the difference between teenage and puberty

is that teenage is brushwood for fences and hedges while puberty is the age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.

As an adjective teenage

is of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

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

    puberty

    English

    (wikipedia puberty)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.

    • Related terms

    * postpubescent * peripubescent * prepubescent * puberulent * pubescent * pubes * pubis * pubic

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