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CHILDISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does childishness mean?
• CHILDISHNESS (noun)
The noun CHILDISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. a property characteristic of a child
Familiarity information: CHILDISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A property characteristic of a child
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
childishness; puerility
Hypernyms ("childishness" is a kind of...):
youngness (the opposite of oldness)
Derivation:
childish (indicating a lack of maturity)
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