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boyishness

boyishness noun: the quality of being boyish.

Noun

boyishness (usually uncountable, plural boyishnesses)

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

boyishness meaning in Tamil and Kannada

boyishness in Tamil

பசற்றனம்

boyishness in Kannada

ಹುಡುಗತನ

Forms of boyishness

pluralboyishnesses

Origin of boyishness

From boyish + -ness.

Questions about boyishness

What does boyishness mean?
Boyishness means the quality of being boyish.
What is boyishness in Tamil?
Boyishness in Tamil is பசற்றனம். See Boyishness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is boyishness?
Boyishness is a noun.
What is the plural of boyishness?
The plural of boyishness is boyishnesses.

Words near boyishness in the dictionary

  1. boying off
  2. Boyington
  3. Boyingtons
  4. boyish
  5. boyishly
  6. boyishness
  7. boyishnesses
  8. boyism
  9. boyisms
  10. boyitis
  11. boykie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boyishness (page history and authors); boyishness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); boyishness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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