Behavior, attitudes, or social practices characteristic of boys; the state or quality of being boyish.
From boy plus -ism, a suffix indicating a system, practice, or condition. The term emerged in English to describe boyish characteristics or subcultures associated with young males.
Victorian writers worried obsessively about 'boyism' as a phase that needed to be outgrown into proper manhood, but modern psychologists recognize that play and exploration are exactly what boyhood is supposed to be for.
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