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adultify

verb

Etymology

From adult + -ify, likely a back-formation from adultification.

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

Definitions

  1. To treat a non-adult like an adult.

    • Neil Postman argued for The Disappearance of Childhood in 1982, maintaining that television prematurely adultifies children by confronting them with crime and violence and other adult topics.

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