Difference between Adolescent and Teen

What is the difference between Adolescent and Teen?

Adolescent as a noun is a teenager; a juvenile after puberty while Teen as a noun is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A teenager; a juvenile after puberty

Example sentence: My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.Grief; sorrow; affliction; pain - Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure. - Piers PlowmanTo hedge or fence in; to enclose. - Halliwell?

We hope you now know whether to use Adolescent or Teen in your sentence.