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postadolescence en · NOUN

Etymology

From post- + adolescence.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The period of life following adolescence.
    • 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. 2008 March 24, Ginia Bellafante, “Career Climbing, With Claws Bared”, in New York Times: