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boyishness|ˈbɔɪɪʃnɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] Boyish or boylike quality or state.
1552Huloet, Boyeshnes, puerilitas. 1611Cotgr., Puerilité..boyishnesse, childishnesse..simplicitie. a1791Wesley Husb. & Wives v. Wks. 1811 IX. 75 Behaviour, that..savours of a kind of boyishness. 1881J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. i, To the end of his life there was a deep fund of boyishness in him. |