postadolescence

English

Etymology

post- +‎ adolescence

Noun

postadolescence (uncountable)

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

     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.