boyishness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English boyish Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English boyishness From boyish + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) The quality of being boyish.
That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).
2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| boyishnesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Translations (5)
de Jungenhaftigkeit (quality of being boyish) · de knabenhaftes Aussehen (quality of being boyish) · de Jugendhaftigkeit (quality of being boyish) · de Knabenhaftigkeit (quality of being boyish) · de knabenhaftes Wesen (quality of being boyish)