Grown-upness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Grown-upness is a noun meaning Alternative form of grownupness.
Meaning
Alternative form of grownupness.
Example Sentences
My grown-upness was not such a shock.
Either of our own choosing or sometimes it is forced upon us, we lose our childish innocence and take on false “grown-upness.”
Just ordinary parents who think that what they are doing is "right" and continue to insist on their rightness, because they cannot modulate what is real to their "grown-upness" by accessing another part of themselves that knows what it is like.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include grown-up-ness, grownupness, adultness, adultism, full-grownness, adultivity.
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