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View definitions for girlishness

girlishness

noun as in femaleness

noun as in feminineness

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Example Sentences

Kawakubo plays with innocence and seduction, womanhood and girlishness, discretion and provocation.

She could not refrain from a certain girlishness which, having regard to her years, her waist and her complexion, was ridiculous.

She had lost the fawn-like girlishness that would take flight; there was no nun-spirit within her now to cry "Help me!"

It seemed to deepen the color of her hair and at the same time to give a touch of girlishness to her figure.

Her long hair hung in heavy braids that gave an almost childlike girlishness to her appearance.

He took her in his arms—the form that even age could not rob of its girlishness—and pressed her face to his breast.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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