tweenness

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noun

The quality of being a tween.

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Meanings

nountweenness (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableThe quality of being a tween.

    […] this focus on a multiplicity of voices, as feminist theorists point out, is characteristic of writing by minority women and, by extension seems apposite to these narratives of tweenness. Girlhood can thus be described as a period for creatively making symbolic meaning […]

    2005, Claudia Mitchell, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Seven Going on Seventeen

Origin

From tween + -ness.

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APA

tweenness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tweenness

MLA

“tweenness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tweenness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tweenness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tweenness.

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