adulthood

Noun

Meaning

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: WordNet

Synonyms

maturity prime age majority expansion adult decline evolution childhood improvement infancy advancement adolescence maturation seniority
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Antonyms

childhood age youth minority infancy adolescence
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Hypernyms

maturity matureness time of life

Hyponyms

prime parenthood parentage manhood womanhood muliebrity

Phrases with the word

young adulthood adulthood celebration reach adulthood emerging adulthood party late adulthood middle adulthood

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

adultery adultescence adultescent adulthood celebration adulticidal adulticide