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Preadolescence

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about 9 and 11 for girls, and 10 and 12 for boys. uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

From pre- + adolescence.

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