Young adult

year-long break before or after college/university during which students engage in various educational and developmental activities, such as travel or some type of regular work

young person's transition from childhood to adulthood

crisis involving anxiety over the direction and quality of one's life which is most commonly experienced in a period ranging from a person's twenties up to their mid-thirties

stage of human development between adolescence and middle age (approximately 18 to 40 years old)

Twixter is a neologism that describes a new generation of young adults in the United States and other industrialized countries who are trapped, in a sense, betwixt (between) adolescence and adulthood. This Western neologism is somewhat analogous to the Japanese term parasite single. The Twixter phenomenon was discussed in the 2005 issue of Time.

young adults returning to live with their parents