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ADULTHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("adulthood" is a kind of...):
matureness; maturity (state of being mature; full development)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adulthood"):
manhood (the state of being a man; manly qualities)
parentage; parenthood (the state of being a parent)
muliebrity; womanhood (the state of being an adult woman)
Derivation:
adult (any mature animal)
adult (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
Synonyms:
adulthood; maturity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("adulthood" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Meronyms (parts of "adulthood"):
teens (the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20)
mid-twenties; twenties (the time of life between 20 and 30)
mid-thirties; thirties; thirty-something (the time of life between 30 and 40)
forties; mid-forties (the time of life between 40 and 50)
fifties; mid-fifties (the time of life between 50 and 60)
legal age; majority (the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs)
drinking age (the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages)
voting age (the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections)
middle age (the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adulthood"):
prime; prime of life (the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest)
Derivation:
adult (any mature animal)
adult (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
Context examples:
A hepatocellular carcinoma or intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that occurs during adulthood.
(Adult Liver Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign or malignant lesion typically arising in the period between infancy and adulthood.
(Juvenile Lesion, NCI Thesaurus)
It is more often due to a gradual decline of lactase production in adulthood following the ingestion of fewer lactose-containing foods or secondary to an intestinal mucosal brush-border injury.
(Lactose Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)
The transient diabetes mellitus lasts for weeks or months and may return in adolescence or in adulthood.
(Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus, NCI Thesaurus)
An allelic variant of the MME gene is associated with fetomaternal alloimmunisation with antenatal glomerulopathies and membranous glomerulonephritis (FMAIG) as well as with renal failure in early adulthood.
(MME wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
They have varied pathology depending on the phase of the reproductive life from fetal stage to adulthood.
(Ovarian Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A chronic inflammatory disorder that generally occurs in adulthood and is characterized by sterile pustules intermingled with scaly erythemas, vesicles and hyperkeratosis occurring at distinct sites on the palms and soles.
(Palmoplantar Pustulosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Phobias usually start in children or teens, and continue into adulthood.
(Phobias, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
(Mental Health, NIH)
A localized hepatocellular carcinoma or intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that occurs during adulthood and it is amenable to surgical resection.
(Localized Resectable Adult Liver Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
