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English
Etymology
adult + -ing
Pronunciation
Noun
adulting (uncountable)
- (slang) Engaging in activities typically associated with adulthood.
- (nonstandard) Adultery.
Verb
adulting
- present participle and gerund of adult
2007, Jane Humphries, “ 'Because they are too menny...' children, mothers, and fertility decline: the evidence from working-class autobiographies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”, in Angélique Janssens, editor, Gendering the fertility decline in the Western world, Population, family, and society, volume 7, Bern : Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 116:Trends in the relative costs of child rearing cannot be separated from the economic, social and cultural consequences of both the gendering and adulting of labour markets.
2010, Kenneth Jedding, Higher education: on life, landing a job, and everything else they didn't teach you in college, Emmaus, PA: Rodale, →ISBN, page 210:Then how about this: How about out-adulting the person who's driving you crazy. In other words, being the bigger adult.
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