schoolgirlism en · NOUN
Etymology
From schoolgirl + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Schoolgirlish attitudes or behaviour.
These things should have something of the positive underneath, or they degenerate into conventionality and schoolgirlism.
1860, Dublin University Magazine, page 548:[…] out came the candle from its deal receptacle, and the Amelias, Janes and Carolines, betook themselves to cakes and novels, devouring both with an ardour that only schoolgirlism can produce.
1858, A. von Beresford, Millicent Or Our English Homes of the Present Day: