childishness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English childishnes, childisnes, equivalent to childish + -ness.
Noun[edit]
childishness (countable and uncountable, plural childishnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being childish.
- (countable) Childish behaviour.
- 1868, John Mockett Cramp, Baptist History: from the foundation of the Christian church to the close of the eighteenth century, page 43:
- Exorcism, unction, the sign of the cross, holy water, infant-communion, and many other childishnesses, were also called "Apostolic institutions" — not at first, but long after they were invented, to conceal their real origin […]
Translations[edit]
childishness
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