Usually means: Transition period between child, adult.
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  1. awkward age: Merriam-Webster
  2. awkward age: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. awkward age: Wiktionary
  4. awkward age: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. awkward age: Dictionary.com
  6. The Awkward Age (film), The Awkward Age: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. awkward age: Merriam-Webster

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▸ noun:  Early adolescence.

Similar:
pubescency, adrenarche, teen-ager, caveman stage, bone age, age grade, gonadarche, third age, afterage, age set, more...

Opposite:
prime of life, golden years, peak years

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Similar:
pubescency, adrenarche, teen-ager, caveman stage, bone age, age grade, gonadarche, third age, afterage, age set, more...

Opposite:
prime of life, golden years, peak years



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