Meanings
nounboyishness (usually uncountable, plural boyishnesses)
plural boyishnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe 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
Origin
Translations
German Jugendhaftigkeit, Jungenhaftigkeit
- Jugendhaftigkeitquality of being boyish
- Jungenhaftigkeitquality of being boyish
- Knabenhaftigkeitquality of being boyish
- knabenhaftes Aussehenquality of being boyish
- knabenhaftes Wesenquality of being boyish
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