Meanings
- uncountableThe 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 144Synonyms: streetwisdom
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being streetwise.
Origin
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streetwiseness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streetwiseness
“streetwiseness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streetwiseness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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