Definitions
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- n. The state or condition of being kittenish.
Etymologies
Examples
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The effusiveness was irritating, and the overacted kittenishness of the girl made her sick at heart, although she betrayed no sign of her feeling.
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He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.
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Howells, despite a certain jauntiness and even kittenishness of manner, was spiritually of that company.
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He was fairly mild and merciful with me (thanks to Rodney, I daresay) but unbudgably firm, and at every rehearsal some touch of coyness or kittenishness is added.
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Coldly studied, Leo's restlessness is much less lovable than the kittenishness which comes from a rich and fresh vitality.
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But it is Oscar's keen sense of impending death, not his occasional kittenishness, that has made the mixed-breed cat legend.
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But there is one dancer who I think relies a bit too much on her sex kittenishness a bit too much.
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a man who weighs close onto 150 pounds, though he is as kitteny as anybody when occasion calls for kittenishness.
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
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