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tweenness

tweenness noun: the quality of being a tween.

Noun

tweenness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being a tween.
    • […] 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 […]2005, Claudia Mitchell, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Seven Going on Seventeen

Origin of tweenness

From tween + -ness.

Questions about tweenness

What does tweenness mean?
Tweenness means the quality of being a tween.
What part of speech is tweenness?
Tweenness is a noun.

Words near tweenness in the dictionary

  1. tweenings
  2. tweenish
  3. tweenism
  4. tweenisms
  5. tweenlight
  6. tweenness
  7. tweenpreneur
  8. tweenpreneurs
  9. tweens
  10. tweeny
  11. tweenybopper

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