emerging adult

== English == === Noun === emerging adult (plural emerging adults) (psychology, sociology, medicine, often attributive) In some conceptions of human life phases, a member of the subset of adults who, although postadolescent (having passed the age of majority), retain some aspects of mental or emotional immaturity. Hypernym: adult (coordinate in some vague assertions) Coordinate terms: adolescent, middle-ager, older adult Near-synonym: young adult ==== Usage notes ==== Not consistently and clearly differentiated from young adults; sometimes asserted to be not adult, usually in muddled ways that do not then also precisely define when or how adulthood begins, do not offer any coordinate term (whether full-fledged adult or otherwise), and do not accord with legal definitions of adulthood.