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streetwiseness en · NOUN

Etymology

From streetwise + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being streetwise.
    • The 1990s legacy of Girl Power exactly fits this category, although it too, of course, contains a radical feminist component in the feisty, sexually in-your-face streetwiseness of women. 2003, Michelene Wandor, Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender, page 144:

Synonyms

streetwisdom