What does grown-upness mean?
Grown-upness means Alternative form of grownupness..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of grownupness..
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.
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.”
Use grown-upness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grown-upness means Alternative form of grownupness..
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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.
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