boyishness

English

Etymology

boyish +‎ -ness

Noun

boyishness (usually uncountable, plural boyishnesses)

1. The quality of being boyish.
   • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).

Coordinate terms

• girlishness

Translations

quality of being boyish

• German: Jugendhaftigkeit f, Jungenhaftigkeit f, Knabenhaftigkeit f, knabenhaftes Aussehen n, knabenhaftes Wesen n