postadolescence

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ adolescence.

Noun

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postadolescence (uncountable)

  1. The period of life following adolescence.
    • 2008 March 24, Ginia Bellafante, “Career Climbing, With Claws Bared”, in New York Times[1]:
      The theme of ambition permeates the new season, although it detracts not at all from the show’s canny sense that there’s no such thing as postadolescence: you’re a teenager until you start having biopsies and paying a mortgage.