postadolescence
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From post- + adolescence.
Noun
[edit]postadolescence (uncountable)
- 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.