childlikeness
- 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
There are certain artists, too, who seem to have retained their own childlikeness better than others, and such were called upon to illustrate this volume.
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk by Wheeler, Daniel Edwin
Such a hooking-on to children, without parental childlikeness, is ambiguous.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Save for a little tendency to preachment, these volumes, particularly Masterman Ready, and The Children of the New Forest, are admirably suited to their purpose from the genuine childlikeness of their conception and treatment.
From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Marryat, Frederick
