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adolescence

transitional phase between childhood and adulthood
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Summary

adolescence is a phase of human life[1]. adolescence draws 15,613 Wikipedia views per month (phase of human life category, ranking #2 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: age of a person[3]
  • Follows: childhood[4], preadolescence[5]
  • Followed by: adulthood[6], emerging adulthood and early adulthood[7]
  • Commons category: Adolescence[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Adolescence[9]
  • Facet of: development of the human body[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], The New Student's Reference Work[13], The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology[14]
  • Partially coincident with: young adulthood[15]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C39298[16]
  • Has part(s) of the class: teenager[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

Why It Matters

adolescence has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] adolescence is known by 108 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · WikiLucas00 · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → LL-Q8097 (tel)-ప్రశాంతి-యవ్వనం.wav
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Pronunciation audio: LL-Q8097 (tel)-ప్రశాంతి-యవ్వనం.wav"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → adolescence
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: adolescence, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915572|adolescence (#289915572)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  3. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1YTEcQ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0262634-adolescence
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0262634-adolescence, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  5. 20w ago · AAbelardoo · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → young adulthood
    Instance of → phase of human life, age of a person
    Followed by → adulthood, emerging adulthood and early adulthood
    Has part(s) of the class → teenager
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: process"
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