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adulthood definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed [syn: adulthood, maturity]
2: the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity

Merriam Webster's

noun see adult I

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Adulthood is the state of being an adult. Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.

Moby Thesaurus

adultness, age of consent, driving age, flower of age, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, grown-upness, legal age, legalis homo, majority, manhood, manlihood, mature age, maturity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, riper years, toga virilis, virility, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion