English edit

Etymology edit

non- +‎ young

Adjective edit

nonyoung (not comparable)

  1. Not young.
    • 1975, The Vocational Guidance Quarterly, volume 24, page 366:
      The nonyoung, the nonmale, and the nonwhite have known that their vocational options were restricted []
    • 1990, Lawrence Meir Friedman, The Republic of Choice, page 170:
      Thus the so-called youth culture is really a culture of nonyoung people who have decided to dissolve their adulthood and absorb it into patterns once considered appropriate only for children and adolescents.