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from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The state of being childish.
  • noun countable Childish behaviour.

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

  • noun a property characteristic of a child

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childish +‎ -ness

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