grown-upness

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grown-upness

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alternative, uncountable Alternative form of grownupness 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.

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@misc{grown_upness_2026,
  title = {grown-upness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grown-upness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}