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- nonstandarduncountableThe state or condition of being a girl; femininity, girlhood.
Pawing through the pile of clothes on my floor for the right pants, shoes, sweater appropriately comfortable, sturdy, warm, I am struck with a heightened awareness of my girlness.
2010, Jennifer Bové, Wild with Child: Adventures of Families in the Great Outdoors, page 2401 more example
The adult Lynda does eventually reclaim her girlness from the control of others with help from a surrogate mother figure, an unlikely hero named Norabelle, a thirteen-year-old girl who rescues the adult Lynda […]
2012, Susan E. Kirtley, Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass, page 172
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girlness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/girlness
“girlness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/girlness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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