grown-upness

English

Noun

grown-upness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of grownupness
   • 2013, Philip M. Bromberg, Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, →ISBN:

     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, Lesley Glaister, Honour Thy Father, →ISBN:

     My grown-upness was not such a shock.

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

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