life stages
Infancy through senescence
Life stages are the distinct phases of development that living things pass through from birth to death.
For humans, common divisions include infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.
The term appears in developmental psychology, biology, and marketing: Products designed for different life stages.
Life stage can also refer to a single phase: the toddler life stage.
- adulthoodState of being grown
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- old ageAdvanced years of life
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- golden yearsLater life stage
senior citizen · parenthood · senescence · rites of passage · milestones · naming ceremonies · identity formation · generational identity · childhood · infancy · baby steps · terrible twos · initiation rituals · maturity · puberty · sweet sixteen · elderhood · aging
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- simulation gamesThe Sims, character creation, virtual pet, tycoon game, dating sim
- age groupsage groups, generations, adults, children, teenagers
- age-related termsretirement age, driving age, drinking age, voting age, legal age
- coming-of-agecoming-of-age, bildungsroman, growing up, maturation, youth
life stagesinstant
Briefest unit of time
split second · point in time · fleeting moment · snapshot · frozen moment
life stagesstasis
State of inactivity
arrested development · permanence · timelessness · agelessness · immutability
life, stage, living, lifeless, lifetime, lives, staged, staging, afterlife