streetwiseness
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From streetwise + -ness.
Noun
[edit]streetwiseness (uncountable)
- The quality of being streetwise.
- 2003, Michelene Wandor, Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender, page 144:
- 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.