full-grownness
English edit
Etymology edit
From full-grown + -ness.
Noun edit
- (rare) The state, quality, or condition of being full-grown; adulthood; maturity.
- 1976, John R. Meyer, Reflections on Values Education, page 10:
- But this form can be known only when the mussel is full-grown, and this full-grownness in turn, is the goal of everything the mussel does.