girlish
adjective
of, like, or befitting a girl or girlhood.
girlishness
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a word derived from
girlish.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Hoffman’s Desdemona has a pronounced, wide-eyed girlishness that makes her confusion at her husband’s suspicions and growing antagonism pitiful to watch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
In the script, she wrote herself the stage direction “HEIDI releases any last remnants of the buoyant, performative girlishness that is one of her lifelong coping mechanisms.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
Silverstone, whom pop culture met as a teenager, is 41 now, but with an innate girlishness that age cannot wither nor the cigarettes Bonnie is forever waving disguise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2018
But we don’t get to explore the deeper reasoning behind her behavior; we are exposed only to her eccentricity and girlishness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2018
She could not be older than twenty-five, and there was even a girlishness in her bearing.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
