Dictionary Definition
childishness n : a property characteristic of a
child [syn: puerility]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- the state of being childish
Extensive Definition
Childish can refer to:
- Being in the manner of a child
- English writer and musician Billy Childish
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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