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- noun The period of
life followingadolescence .
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From teenagers coddled by helicopter parents to underage drinkers mad for Four Loco, popular depictions of undergraduates often paint them as young adults feeling their way through postadolescence.
Who Are America's Undergraduates? Who Are the Undergraduates? 2010
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From teenagers coddled by helicopter parents to underage drinkers mad for Four Loco, popular depictions of undergraduates often paint them as young adults feeling their way through postadolescence.
Who Are America's Undergraduates? Who Are the Undergraduates? 2010
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It is for this reason that he made a habit of cutting his arms during and postadolescence and is now refusing to eat in prison.
Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003
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Although she was able to adopt a posture of composure and confidence, at twenty-five an aura of postadolescence still hung over her.
Higher Authority White, Stephen, 1951- 1994
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Some clinicians predict stability in adulthood based on overall adjustment prior to adolescence; others look for good adjustment after early adolescence as the predictor of stability or pathology after the final stage of consolidated postadolescence.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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There is, instead, a growing no-man’s-land of postadolescence from 20 to 30, which they dub "early adulthood."
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