Adultescent vs Adolescence - What's the difference?
adultescent | adolescence |
An adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture.
* 2001 , Andrew Calcutt, Brit Cult: An A-Z of British Pop Culture , page 237,
* 2001 December 30, Peter Lyle, Farewell 2001'', in '' ,
* 2004 , Australian Book Review , Issues 258-267, page 51,
* 2008 , Business Week , Issues 4065-4072, page 122,
The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.
As nouns the difference between adultescent and adolescence
is that adultescent is an adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture while adolescence is the transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.adultescent
English
Noun
(en noun)- First he was known as the ultimate adultescent , a thirty/fortysomething who admitted to being fixated with football and music and stuck at the mental/emotional age of 14.
- PlayStation2 and X-Box are all very well. But for die-hard video-game connoiseurs the Golden Age ended on 1 February, when Sega announced that the Dreamcast was to cease production after just three years. Stung by Sony's success since 1995 with PlayStation, the veteran video-game firm had put all its energies into a final charge on the hearts and minds of kids and adultescents with an affordable, technologically advanced new console.
- This time his protagonist is not a gormless ‘adultescent ’ but a middle-aged woman named Meg Riddoch.
- For more than a year, the senator's "adultescent " campaign staffers have been swarming college campuses in beat-up cars with college logos, collecting names, building databases, and creating a social networking juggernaut .
Synonyms
*adultolescent *kidult *rejuvenileadolescence
English
Noun
- During adolescence , the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.
