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boyness en · NOUN

Etymology

From boy + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being a boy; masculinity, boyhood.
    • What is it to be a boy in the scouts? What resources of communication give expression to boyness? 1988, Donal A Carbaugh, Talking American: Cultural Discourses on Donahue, page 9:
    • I wished for boyness because the boys did so many things I wanted to do and was excluded from doing because I was a girl. 2018 January 2, Emily Willingham, “The non-binary brain”, in Aeon:
    • Evelyn Hoskins distils boyness from wide-eyed wonder and swaggering assurance. 2014 July 27, Clare Brennan, The Observer:

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