postadolescent
nounEtymology From post- + adolescent.
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One who has grown out of adolescence.
postadolescent
adjEtymology From post- + adolescent.
1
Occurring after a period of adolescence.
- The let’s-try-anything, free-thinking society of 1968 evolved into a catastrophic blend of legitimate paranoia (Nixon did keep enemies lists, and the F.B.I. did infiltrate campuses) and postadolescent melodrama.2007 June 17, Michael Goldfarb, “Where the Arts Were Too Liberal”, in New York Times: