girliness
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- noun
- /ˈɡɜrlɪnəs/
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feminidad
- The party decorations were filled with girliness, featuring pink balloons and sparkly tableware.
Examples
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Many people associate girliness with softness and elegance in fashion choices.
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Like others here, the issue isn't so much with individual women wanting all the glitter and sparkly pens or Hello Kitty hair clips they want; it's with the marketers, because all this glittery girliness encourages the infantilization of women.
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One of the main characters, Jess, is talking to a character who obviously doesn't take her seriously because of her girliness and says the following:
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- Some girliness.
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Girliness.
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In part, due to the proliferation of kick-butt girls in YA fiction that reject femininity, there is a common misconception among some teens that for a girl to be "strong," she can't embrace her girliness at the same time.
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Her love for bright colors and playful accessories reflects her girliness.
Synonyms
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A set of qualities often seen in women, like gentleness and grace
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A way of behaving or looking that seems young and playful like a girl
Qualities or style people think belong to women, like gentle manner and dress
Antonyms
How Girly
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word girliness is made from the simple word girl plus the ending -ness, which means 'a quality or state'. Like happiness or kindness, the -ness part turns girl into 'the quality of being like a girl', so girliness describes a style, look, or behavior people think of as feminine.