Synonyms of boyishness

boyishness

noun

as in tomboyishness

Related Words

• tomboyishness
• maleness
• masculinity
• manhood
• manliness
• mannishness
• virility
• machismo
• macho

Dissimilar Words

• femininity
• womanhood
• womanliness
• girlishness
• femaleness
• girlhood
• maidenhood
• effeminacy
• muliebrity
• emasculation
• effeteness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of boyishness

That everyday boyishness is the reason Disney Kids & Family’s senior vice president of casting, Brenda Kelly Grant, and her team gravitated to Barton for placement across the Disney portfolio. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026

To embody Fred Astaire is to have a certain boyishness, sure, but that crazy dancer was a man, through and through. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 July 2026

But their patience dwindles, her son Telemachus (Tom Holland, his eternal boyishness put to great use) is getting easier to goad into a fight, and the blind swineherd Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) is all that’s left of the king’s loyal servants. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

In the opening stretch, as young Pat fights the power, we’re touched by the actor’s boyishness, still clinging to him at fifty. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025

In these moments, his boyishness shined through. — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025