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nonyoung

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ young.

Adjective

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nonyoung (not comparable)

  1. Not young.
    • 1975, The Vocational Guidance Quarterly, volume 24, page 366:
      The nonyoung, the nonmale, and the nonwhite have known that their vocational options were restricted []
    • 1990, Lawrence Meir Friedman, The Republic of Choice, page 170:
      Thus the so-called youth culture is really a culture of nonyoung people who have decided to dissolve their adulthood and absorb it into patterns once considered appropriate only for children and adolescents.