Noun
the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity
the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
Source: WordNetThe management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. Germaine Greer
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. Robert A. Heinlein
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains. Camille Paglia
Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you. Dylan Moran
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. Jim Henson
What one learns in childhood he carries into adulthood. Filipino Proverb