adulthood
adulthood noun: the state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.
Noun
adulthood (usually uncountable, plural adulthoods)
- 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.
- Antonyms:
- childhood, adolescence, boyhood, girlhood
- 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.
- Antonyms:
- childhood, adolescence, boyhood, girlhood
adulthood meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian
adulthood in Hindi
- time of life
- वयस्कता vayaskatā, वयस्कावस्था vayaskāvasthā
adulthood in Urdu
- بلوغ, سِن شعُور, دور شباب, جوانی کا وقت, جوانی کا دور, بلوغت کا زمانہ
adulthood in Bengali
- time of life
- সাবালকতা śabalkota, সাবালকত্ব śabalokotto
adulthood in Indonesian
- time of life
- dewasa
Antonyms of adulthood
Forms of adulthood
| plural | adulthoods |
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Origin of adulthood
From adult + -hood.
Words formed from adulthood
Questions about adulthood
- What does adulthood mean?
- Adulthood means the state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.
- What is adulthood in Hindi?
- Adulthood in Hindi is वयस्कता (vayaskatā), वयस्कावस्था (vayaskāvasthā). See Adulthood meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adulthood?
- Adulthood is a noun.
- What is the plural of adulthood?
- The plural of adulthood is adulthoods.
Words near adulthood in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adulthood (page history and authors); adulthood (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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