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childlikeness

noun

Etymology

From childlike + -ness.

  1. derived from *gel-✻
  2. derived from *ǵelt-✻
  3. inherited from *kelþaz✻
  4. inherited from *kilþ✻
  5. inherited from ċild
  6. inherited from child
  7. suffixed as childlike — “child + -like”
  8. suffixed as childlikeness — “childlike + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being childlike.

    • How old was Isabel? According to all reasonable inferences from the presumed circumstances of her life, she was his elder, certainly, though by uncertain years; yet her whole aspect was that of more than childlikeness; […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA