ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Boyishness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Boyishness is a noun meaning The quality of being boyish.

Meaning

The quality of being boyish.

Example Sentences

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).

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include schoolboyishness, boyness, boyism, girlishness, tomboyishness, manliness.

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