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
Their simplicity, their childlikeness, their innocence, are qualities that are perceived only after suffering.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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 Frederick Marryat
Not the mystery of faith, nor the philosophy of faith, does the soul-winner need to study; but the simplicity, the childlikeness of faith.
From The Art of Soul-Winning by J.W. Mahood
