Usually means: Transition from dependency to independence.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulthood: Merriam-Webster
  2. adulthood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adulthood: Collins English Dictionary
  4. adulthood: Vocabulary.com
  5. Adulthood, adulthood: Wordnik
  6. adulthood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. adulthood: Wiktionary
  8. adulthood: Dictionary.com
  9. adulthood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Adulthood (film), Adulthood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. adulthood: Rhymezone
  12. adulthood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. adulthood: FreeDictionary.org
  14. adulthood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. adulthood: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. adulthood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulthood: Legal dictionary
  2. adulthood: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adulthood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulthood: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. adulthood: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity.
▸ noun:  The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.

Similar:
maturity, adultship, grownupness, full-grownness, adultivity, adultescence, grown-upness, agedness, matureness, adolescence, more...

Opposite:
childhood, infancy, youth, immaturity, juvenility

Phrases:
early adulthood, Emerging adulthood and early adulthood, Emerging adulthood and early adulthood, young adulthood, late adulthood, more...

Adjectives:
young, early, late, middle, older, full, mature, responsible, independent, healthy, productive

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Similar:
maturity, adultship, grownupness, full-grownness, adultivity, adultescence, grown-upness, agedness, matureness, adolescence, more...

Opposite:
childhood, infancy, youth, immaturity, juvenility

Phrases:
early adulthood, Emerging adulthood and early adulthood, Emerging adulthood and early adulthood, young adulthood, late adulthood, reach adulthood, transitioning to adulthood, more...

Adjectives:
young, early, late, middle, older, full, mature, responsible, independent, healthy, productive

Colors:
    charcoal,     burgundy,     taupe,     olive,     maroon, more...



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