adulthood

English

Etymology

From adult +‎ -hood.

Pronunciation

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Noun

adulthood (usually uncountable, plural adulthoods)

1. The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity.

   Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.

2. The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.

   The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.

   The things learned in childhood affect us throughout our adulthood.

Antonyms

• childhood

Derived terms

• subadulthood
• waithood

Translations

time of life

Bengali: সাবালকতা (śabalkota), সাবালকত্ব (śabalokotto) Chinese: Mandarin: 成年 (zh) (chéngnián) Czech: dospělost (cs) f Dutch: volwassenheid (nl) f Esperanto: adolteco, plenaĝo Finnish: täysi-ikäisyys (fi), aikuisuus (fi), aikuisikä French: âge adulte (fr) m, majorité (fr) f German: Erwachsenenalter (de) n Hebrew: בַּגְרוּת (he) f (bagrút) Hindi: वयस्कता f (vayaskatā), बालिग़पन m (bāliġpan) Ido: adulteso (io) Indonesian: dewasa (id) Japanese: 成人であること (ja) (せいじんであること, seijin de aru koto) Latin: adulta aetas f Polish: dorosłość (pl) f Portuguese: idade adulta (pt) f, fase adulta (pt) f, adultez (pt) f Romanian: maturitate (ro) f, vârstă adultă f Russian: зре́лость (ru) f (zrélostʹ), взро́слость (ru) f (vzróslostʹ), совершенноле́тие (ru) n (soveršennolétije) (majority, full age) Spanish: edad adulta f, adultez (es) f Swedish: vuxendom c Turkish: yetişkinlik (tr) Uyghur: بالاغەت (balaghet) Volapük: daülüp