What does adultify mean?
Adultify means To treat a non-adult like an adult..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To treat a non-adult like an adult..
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.
Use adultify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adultify means To treat a non-adult like an adult..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include infantilize.
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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