Definition of "kittenishness" [kittenishness]

• The state or condition of being kittenish. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "Howells, despite a certain jauntiness and even kittenishness of manner, was spiritually of that company."