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GIRLISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does girlishness mean?
• GIRLISHNESS (noun)
The noun GIRLISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. being characteristic of a girl
Familiarity information: GIRLISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being characteristic of a girl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("girlishness" is a kind of...):
femininity; muliebrity (the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women)
Derivation:
girlish (befitting or characteristic of a young girl)
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