peripuberty
nounEtymology From peri- + puberty.
1
The time around puberty.
- Onset of transvestophilia is retrospectively dated to peripuberty or later, although fascination with female clothing may be dated to an earlier age, frequently age 8 or younger.1999, Robert T. Ammerman, Michel Hersen, Cynthia G. Last, Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Children and Adolescents:
- Related terms
- peripubescent