What does grown-upness mean?

grown-upness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

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"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."
"My grown-upness was not such a shock."
"Either of our own choosing or sometimes it is forced upon us, we lose our childish innocence and take on false “grown-upness.”"

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