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grown-upness en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) 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.
2013, Philip M. Bromberg, Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, →ISBN:My grown-upness was not such a shock.
2013, Lesley Glaister, Honour Thy Father, →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: