Crossword clues for childishness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Childishness \Child"ish*ness\, n. The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or characteristic of being childish. 2 (context countable English) Childish behaviour.
WordNet
n. a property characteristic of a child [syn: puerility]
Usage examples of "childishness".
In a word, they are the same folly, the same childishness, the same ill-breeding, and the same ill-nature, which raise all the clamours and uproars both in life and on the stage.
It seemed to me that his off-hand professions of childishness and carelessness were a great relief to my guardian, by contrast with such things, and were the more readily believed in since to find one perfectly undesigning and candid man among many opposites could not fail to give him pleasure.
From this childishness of our people Josephine too has profited since the beginning.
Often she castigated herself for such shows of childishness, but Cressida was no "Patient Griselda' however often she promised herself that she would make an effort to curb this tendency towards waspish hess She was an excellent horsewoman and did not find the long hours in the saddle too trying.
All the sensualities and childishnesses and sins of the body were stripped away when our bodies were put aside.
Clash of the Titans slid us back to childishness in an awkward (in writing and special effects) retelling of the story of Perseus, leaving out the shower of gold and wasting some masterful British actors as a group of squabbling Olympians.
From his solitary rock he had watched the boat pass him and make for the Ladybird in the channel, and he had decided--with that curious childishness into which the mind relapses on such supreme occasions--that the moment when the gathering gloom swallowed her up, should be the moment when he would plunge into the surge below him.
Flushed and a little breathless from so unusually strenuous an exercise, the plump young Postulants seize another woman -- a girl this time, frail and slender almost to the point of childishness.
Even when he puled and wailed, he never disgusted me by his childishness as you are doing, here and now.
The emotional phase was over: they'd taken me quite a long way into sleep deprivation and produced an initial reaction - childishness, the urge to attack them.