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boyishnesses

boyishnesses is the plural of boyishness.

Meaning of boyishness

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

Questions about boyishnesses

What is boyishnesses the plural of?
Boyishnesses is the plural of boyishness.

Words near boyishnesses in the dictionary

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

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