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childlikeness

  • a word derived from childlike.
    childlike
    adjective
    like a child, as in innocence, frankness, etc.; befitting a child.

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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

The Middle Ages showed in the cradle-rocking ‘a true German and most lovable childlikeness.’

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

If we bear in mind this natural and instinctive childlikeness in Shelley, we have the clue to almost all his inconsistencies and entanglements.

From The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

The faith of the patriarchs seems to have been characterised by entire simplicity and childlikeness.

From Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by George Milligan