Grown-upness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of grownupness. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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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