| Main Entry: | manhood/womanhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical maturity and strength of adult male or female |
| Synonyms: | adulthood, coming of age, fecundity, femininity, fertility, manfulness, manliness, masculinity, mettle, potency, virility, womanliness, womanness |
| Antonyms: | childhood |
| Main Entry: | manhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maturity |
| Synonyms: | adulthood, boldness, bravery, chivalry, courage, daring, determination, firmness, forcefulness, fortitude, gallantry, hardihood, honor, machismo, manfulness, manliness, masculinity, mettle, nobility, potency, resoluteness, resolution, self-reliance, spirit, sturdiness, tenacity, valor, virility |
| Main Entry: | majority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood |
| Synonyms: | age of consent, drinking age, estate, full age, legal maturity, manhood, maturity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, seniority, voting age, womanhood |
| Notes: | a majority is more than half the votes, while a plurality is simply getting more votes than the other person(s) |
| Antonyms: | adolescence, childhood, minority, underage |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, full bloom, fullness, majority, manhood, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, perfection, postpubescence, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripeness, sophistication, wisdom, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male or female gender |
| Synonyms: | femininity, manhood, manliness, masculinity, sexuality, womanhood, womanliness |
| Main Entry: | virility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | masculinity |
| Synonyms: | forceful, machismo, macho*, maleness, manhood, manliness, muscularity, potency, power, ruggedness, strength, vigor |
| Main Entry: | age of consent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal age |
| Synonyms: | adulthood, manhood, marriageable age, maturity, womanhood |
| Main Entry: | manliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | masculinity |
| Synonyms: | boldness, courage, manfulness, manhood, manlikeness, strength, virility |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
adolescent, adult, adultoid, beardless, brephic, budding, callow, ephebic, full, grown up, hebrephrenic, impuberal, in one's prime, in one's teens, junior, juvenile, manly, marriageable, matronly, mature, middle, neanic, neotelnic, neotenic, nubile, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, pedomorphic, prepubescent, pubescent, sappy, seasoned, underage, virile, viripotent, womanly, yeanling, young, youngster, youthful
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