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| 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 |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
| Main Entry: | virility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | masculinity |
| Synonyms: | forceful, machismo, macho*, maleness, manhood, manliness, muscularity, potency, power, ruggedness, strength, vigor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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| 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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