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Adultness

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a·dult  (-dlt, dlt)
n.
1. One who has attained maturity or legal age.
2. Biology A fully grown, mature organism.
adj.
1. Fully developed and mature.
2. Relating to, intended for, or befitting adults: adult education.
3. Containing or dealing in explicitly sexual material; pornographic: adult movies; adult bookstores.
[From Latin adultus, past participle of adolscere, to grow up; see adolescent.]
a·dulthood n.
a·dultness n.


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