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
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 Carolyn Wells
And to a child just the fact of grown-upness is so admirable.
From This Is the End by Stella Benson
He attempted a bow of finished grown-upness, failed somewhat, and melted at once into an engaging boyishness, under which his frank admiration of his new-found relative was not to be hidden.
From Robinetta by Allan McAulay
