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a child who learned to fear Mondays and call it maturity
means A person who has reached full legal or biological maturity, with all the responsibilities and dwindling bedtimes that implies.
from From Latin adultus, the past participle of adolescere, "to grow up" — built from ad- ("to, toward") and alescere ("to be nourished, to grow"). So buried in "adult" is the same root that feeds "adolescent": one is still growing, the other is declared done. Tellingly, the word arrived in English as a grammatical past tense — grown, finished, ripened — even though the people it describes rarely feel any of those things.
- brain finish
- Frontal lobe finishes wiring around age 25
- tooth count
- 32 teeth, four of them regret called wisdom
- legal limbo
- Adulthood age varies wildly by country
- bone math
- Born with 300 bones, end with 206
- daily blinks
- Blinks about 20,000 times a day unnoticed
adult film industry — generates approximately $97 billion globally per year
adult swim — cartoon network's late-night programming block launched 2001