grown-upness
- a word derived from grown-up.
Example Sentences
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After Peter balks at Wendy’s grotesque grown-upness, Wendy decides to send her own daughter to Neverland, living by proxy through some deep psychological drama best handled by Sophocles.
From Time • Dec. 5, 2014
Responsible for this grown-upness: "early mental maturing . . . via the newspapers and radio, as well as the screen."
From Time Magazine Archive
Or rather I could help you to have nerve-storms all the time, without any stagnant grown-upness in between.
From Living Alone by Benson, Stella
The bedroom fire was a concession to his acknowledged grown-upness.
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)
The grown-upness of it was all out of proportion for children, I think, and,—as usual in this house, the expense was out of proportion to everything else.
From Patty Fairfield by Wells, Carolyn
