streetwiseness

English

Etymology

streetwise +‎ -ness

Noun

streetwiseness (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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