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girliness

  • a word derived from girly.

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“I think it was the girliness that attracted us to it,” Ms. Anderson said.

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2022

Can we claim power as women without also denigrating girliness?

From The Guardian Mar. 20, 2019

Kaling is a great actor and her special brand of unashamed girliness would be hilarious in Ghostbusters 3.

From The Guardian Oct. 9, 2014

Presumably, at the alley, Santorum objected not to the girliness of the ball, but to its gender-bending placement in the hands of a young man.

From Slate Apr. 2, 2012

If even Martha can't escape this tender trap, the need to convince us of her sweetness and girliness, what woman can?

From Time Magazine Archive

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