childlike
adjective
childlikeness
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a word derived from
childlike.
Example Sentences
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They mock her middle-class wardrobe, love of sugary candy and general childlikeness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet there was an uncommon childlikeness about her which not only misled these new friends, but many others who had known her longer.
From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett
The utter childlikeness of this playlet is one of its chief charms.
From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow
Nor do I see here, in his abandonment of the obvious, any proof of the childlikeness and innocence of Emily, however childlike and innocent she may have been.
From The Three Brontës by May Sinclair
