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Meanings of adulthood in English

Portuguese
maturidade
Catalan
maduresa
Spanish
madurez

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

        maturidade
        Usage of adulthood in English
        1
        However, the developmental trajectory from late childhood to adulthood is less clear.
        Pubmed
        2
        Depression in adolescent girls may result in negative consequences in young adulthood.
        Pubmed
        3
        However, testosterone treatment only during puberty or during adulthood was without effect.
        Pubmed
        4
        Dinosaurs mature rapidly; most species attain adulthood in four or five years.
        The Lost World
        5
        Methods: Two cohorts of healthy Finnish twins were assessed in young adulthood.
        Pubmed
        6
        They help fight infection in children but shrink and disappear by adulthood.
        Reuters
        7
        And unlike that great false Grail of adulthood, understanding really would come.
        Discord's apple
        8
        BMI had an additional negative effect on body image satisfaction during adulthood.
        Pubmed
        9
        Older age was associated with higher rates of childhood and adulthood trauma.
        Pubmed
        10
        Colleges must alert incoming students to the problems and dangers of adulthood.
        Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
        11
        Why are our children reaching biological adulthood at earlier and earlier ages?
        The Guardian
        12
        The task of growing from childhood to adulthood is a major one.
        The Irish Times
        13
        Within-group analyses also revealed differences between each parenting group into later adulthood.
        Pubmed
        14
        At adulthood the anus was three inches anterior to the os coceygeus.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        15
        At 45-years-old he's part of a generation that prolongs its young adulthood.
        The Irish Times
        16
        Type II typically develops in adulthood and is linked strongly to obesity.
        Reuters
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        Translations for adulthood
        Portuguese
        maturidade
        Spanish
        madurez
        Adulthood through the time
        Adulthood across language varieties
        Ireland
        Common
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Rare