adulthood

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 4.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.

   Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.

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

   The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.

Similar words

maturity grown-up grownup mature age majority puberty legal age prime manhood

Often followed by

and is in as are with to the that

Word family

adult adulthoods adultly adultness adultnesses adults