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streetwiseness

noun

Etymology

From streetwise + -ness.

  1. inherited from *-wīsaz✻
  2. inherited from *-wīs✻
  3. inherited from -wīs
  4. inherited from -wis
  5. compounded as streetwise — “street + -wise”
  6. suffixed as streetwiseness — “streetwise + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being streetwise.

    • The 1990s legacy of Girl Power exactly fits this category, although it too, of course, contains a radical feminist component in the feisty, sexually in-your-face streetwiseness of women.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for streetwiseness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA