curmudgeonhood en · NOUN
Etymology
From curmudgeon + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The status of being a curmudgeon
True, he's a little young for full curmudgeonhood, but he's been working tirelessly at it for years, and he takes a gadfly's delight in pointing out that this or that emperor has no clothes.
1978 Jan-Jun, Dick Rath, “Odd Lot”, in Boating: