Synonyms for adulthood
adult·hood

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1. adulthoodnoun

   Antonyms:
   childhood

2. adulthoodnoun

   The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.

   Antonyms:
   childhood

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1. adulthood, maturitynoun

   the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed

   Synonyms:
   matureness, maturity, due date, maturity date

2. adulthoodnoun

   the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity

   Synonyms:
   maturity

Matched Categories

1. • Maturity
   • Time Of Life

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1. List of paraphrases for "adulthood":

   adult, maturity

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1. Dawn Holman:

   For those who think back on their childhood and early adulthood and say,' Oh, I already got damaged ; what's the point ?' we know that even starting today could still make a difference and could improve your skin health.

2. Germaine Greer:

   The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

3. Photographer Tom King:

   It's important to show that they're just, in my opinion, vulnerable young men on the boundary between adolescence and adulthood and trying to work out what they're supposed to be doing in life, and at that point they've got this thing going on around them, just this crazy amount of violence, and people like them are getting pulled in.

4. Ashley Poust:

   Here is an animal that has all kinds of signals of being a juvenile, outside its bones, inside its bones, in its joints, and it has long, isolated plumes extending from its already-very-long tail. This is quite different from living birds and tells us that these decorative feathers preceded adulthood in dinosaurs. Of course, perhaps they're using these feathers in a very different way from living birds, too.

5. Kenneth Dunsmuir:

   The signs were there from young adulthood.