Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being or being like a teenager.
I wish I hadn't resisted the magnetic pull of teenageness into that roiling heart of communal feeling.
2019, Sam George-Allen, Witches, page 143 more examples
Your teen experience is so central to what Zen Buddhists call “this great matter of birth and death,” that to be fully awake to your teenageness is to be a genuinely spiritual person.
2002, Franz Metcalf, Buddha in Your Backpack: Everyday Buddhism for Teens, page xiiI almost feel sorry for them but then I realize that their response to her teenageness is helping shape her for the future.
2015, James Colson, Kassie Saga: Teenage Diplomat, →ISBNMr. Avalon must have been near fifty now, but still some kind of feckless teenageness clung to him, in his lank, shining hair, his unbuttoned black shirts, the school-boyish way he'd kick back at his teaching desk, sneakers crossed on the tabletop.
2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 321
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