adulthood
English
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[edit]adulthood (usually uncountable, plural adulthoods)
- The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.
- Antonyms: childhood; adolescence; boyhood, girlhood
- Hyponyms: manhood, womanhood
- Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
- Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.
- The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.
- Antonyms: childhood; adolescence; boyhood, girlhood
- Hyponyms: manhood, womanhood
- Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
- The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.
Derived terms
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[edit]time of life
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