grown-up
adjective
having reached the age of maturity.
grown-upness
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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
And again Bindle marvelled at the grown-upness of her.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
The bedroom fire was a concession to his acknowledged grown-upness.
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
And so she was; but it was with herself, for having failed in discernment and grown-upness.
From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth
