adultify

English

Etymology

adult +‎ -ify

Verb

adultify (third-person singular simple present adultifies, present participle adultifying, simple past and past participle adultified)

  1. To treat a non-adult like an adult.
    • 2014, Anita Wohlmann, Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films:
      Neil Postman argued for The Disappearance of Childhood in 1982, maintaining that television prematurely adultifies children by confronting them with crime and violence and other adult topics.
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