maturity · girlhood · womanhood · hormones · growing · curves · bra · mother · daughter · fertility · bleeding · cycles · hips · coming-of-age · blooming · blossoming · menarche · transformation
IDEA.org / Words / becoming a woman
Related — puberty (Sexual development stage); menstruation (Monthly uterine bleeding); period (Punctuation ending sentences); breasts · adolescence · maturity · girlhood · womanhood · hormones · growing · curves · bra · mother
gender transition directionbecoming a woman ≠ masculinization Development of male traits; manhood
MATURATION vs REGRESSIONbecoming a woman ≠ infantilization Treating as immature; arrested development · Peter Pan syndrome
TRANSFORMATION vs STASISbecoming a woman ≠ stagnation Absence of flow or progress
adolescence: puberty, teenager, coming-of-age, growing up, teen
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/becoming_a_woman