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What does adulthood mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word adulthood? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The time of life when one is expected to take responsibility for one's own actions and well-being.
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Throughout adulthood, autonomy continues to develop whenever someone is challenged to act with a new level of self-reliance.
The onset of acne is usually around puberty, but in a minority of cases it may also start in adulthood.
Once adulthood is reached, everyone has a fairly steady rate of calorie burn-up, called the metabolic rate.
These scenes showcase the array of playthings abandoned by today's children in their rush to adulthood.
Under such circumstances, his survival into adulthood was by no means unremarkable.
Fewer than 10 percent of monarch caterpillars make it to adulthood each year.

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