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teenageritis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From teenager + -itis.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, humorous, uncountable) Immature or rebellious behaviour characteristic of teenagers.
    • "It happens to all of them, that streak of teenageritis." She sighed. "I was only hoping that Kathie would have moved out of the sassy stage before Karyn went into it." 2004, Lori J. Glad, Northern Lights Magic, page 236:
    • Sonora Blair is a single mom: a widow who might have been a divorcee if her husband had lived a bit longer. She has a clingy but resilient young daughter and an older son with a bad case of teenageritis. 1997, Allen J. Hubin, The Armchair Detective, volume 30, page 108:
    • Dad says ever since I came back from Europe, I have come down with a case of delayed teenageritis. I never acted like this before, but now I apparently have a bad attitude and a bad haircut and an irresponsibility streak […] 2013, Gayle Forman, Just One Day: