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adult
1. a mature fully grown animal or plant
2. Law a person who has attained the age of legal majority (18 years for most purposes)


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``When you peel back the veneer of adultness, there are really just a bunch of kids that are willing to stay their skepticism.
Like Renata Adler's jeremiads against the avant-garde in Toward A Radical Middle (1969), it pitted its imperious adultness against a perceived culture of mushrooming infantilism, and sometimes cited little well-intended things that didn't quite work as powerful, malefic symptoms of regression.
 
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