Meaning of grown-upness | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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.””

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