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adulthood

noun

Etymology

From adult + -hood.

  1. derived from adultus
  2. borrowed from adulte
  3. suffixed as adulthood — “adult + hood”

Definitions

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

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

    • Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
    • Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.

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

    • Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
    • The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.
    • The things learned in childhood affect us throughout our adulthood.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adulthood. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adulthood. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at adulthood

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA