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childishness

Today it means: The state or characteristic of being childish. Full definition →

Middle English childishnes

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Middle English · inherited fromchildishnes
English todaychildishness

From Middle English childishnes, childisnes, equivalent to childish + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.