English

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Etymology

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From tween +‎ -ness.

Noun

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tweenness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being a tween.
    • 2005, Claudia Mitchell, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Seven Going on Seventeen:
      [] this focus on a multiplicity of voices, as feminist theorists point out, is characteristic of writing by minority women and, by extension seems apposite to these narratives of tweenness. Girlhood can thus be described as a period for creatively making symbolic meaning []