girlness

English

Etymology

girl + -ness

Noun

girlness (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard) The state or condition of being a girl; femininity, girlhood.
    • 2010, Jennifer Bové, Wild with Child: Adventures of Families in the Great Outdoors, page 240:
      Pawing through the pile of clothes on my floor for the right pants, shoes, sweater appropriately comfortable, sturdy, warm, I am struck with a heightened awareness of my girlness.
    • 2012, Susan E. Kirtley, Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass, page 172:
      The adult Lynda does eventually reclaim her girlness from the control of others with help from a surrogate mother figure, an unlikely hero named Norabelle, a thirteen-year-old girl who rescues the adult Lynda []

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