grown-upness

A form of grownupness — Adulthood; maturity.

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Meanings

noungrown-upness (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of grownupness.

    My grown-upness was not such a shock.

    2013, Lesley Glaister, Honour Thy Father, →ISBN
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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.

    2013, Philip M. Bromberg, Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, →ISBN

    Either of our own choosing or sometimes it is forced upon us, we lose our childish innocence and take on false “grown-upness.”

    2016, Robert B. Shaw Jr., Created for Understanding, →ISBN
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APA

grown-upness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grown-upness

MLA

“grown-upness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grown-upness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grown-upness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grown-upness.

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