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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 to a child just the fact of grown-upness is so admirable.

From This Is the End by Benson, Stella

Imitation is often a strong incentive to reading, it is part of the craving for grown-upness to many children; they desire to do what their brothers and sisters can do.

From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)

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