All adulthood antonyms
a·dult
A a noun adulthood
- childhood — A person's childhood is the period of their life when they are a child.
- youth — the condition of being young.
- adolescence — Adolescence is the period of your life in which you develop from being a child into being an adult.
- infancy — the state or period of being an infant; very early childhood, usually the period before being able to walk; babyhood.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- lessening — to become less.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
- stagnation — the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
- decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
- weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
- irresolution — lack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation.
- timidity — lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
- diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
- stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.