Noun
someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
Source: WordNetThe odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president. Michael Reagan
It is the deep and consequential feeling of abandonment which the baby adoptee feels after the adoption and which may continue for the rest of his life." Source: Internet
Schechter and Bertocci, "The Meaning of the Search" in Brodzinsky and Schechter, Psychology of Adoption," 1990, pg. 67 In part, the problem stems from the small adoptee population which makes random surveying difficult, if not impossible. Source: Internet
In the same vein, France's Napoleonic Code made adoption difficult, requiring adopters to be over the age of 50, sterile, older than the adopted person by at least fifteen years, and to have fostered the adoptee for at least six years. Source: Internet
But as a woman, I’ve been conditioned to be accommodating, deferential, and always pleasant; as an adoptee, I am eager for approval, anxious to be liked, and acutely aware of what is owed to my adoptive family. Source: Internet
First there's Terri, a 37-year-old adoptee bereft from the death of her adoptive mother and hoping that finding her birth mother will provide a sense of wholeness. Source: Internet