girlishness
- 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
Ms. Delinian, in her 70s but with a girlishness about her, gets about three amps a day to her apartment from a private generator.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
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
Richard Hughes, she now understood very well, had known her very little, and had loved only her prettiness and light girlishness, charms which were different from anything in his own life.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
