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childishness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun childishness has 1 sense
- childishness(n = noun.attribute) puerility - a property characteristic of a child; Array is a kind of youngness
Derived form adjective childish1
CIDE DICTIONARY
childishness, n.
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
childishness
anility, babyishness, boylikeness, caducity, callowness, childlikeness, decline, dotage, dotardism, girlishness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexpedience, infantilism, injudiciousness, irrationality, maidenliness, pompousness, puerilism, puerility, reasonlessness, recklessness, second childhood, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility, senselessness, stuffiness, thoughtlessness, unintelligence, unreason, unreasonableness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, witlessness
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