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Childishness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state of being childish.

n. Childish behaviour.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being childish; puerility; simplicity; weakness of intellect: most frequently used in a disparaging sense.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a property characteristic of a child

Word Usage

"This is mostly childishness, which is, I suppose, morally culpable, although again I can't see that it should affect our estimation of whatever genuine insights and aesthetic achievements arise from their iconoclasm as artists."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

youngness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

simplicity harmlessness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

inanity wastefulness levity laziness irrationality