childishness

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Honorable mentions get one of our lusted-after Loser magnets, “No Childishness Left Behind” or “Magnum Dopus,” or more likely their successors, now being created.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2018

Childishness is funny and always will be; I enjoy watching him, and I enjoy playing him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2015

Childishness, thin lips, lung trouble are Gemini characteristics.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he stood sobbing: nowise insincere, But somehow child-like, like his children, like Childishness the world over.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

This pretty Childishness of Behaviour is one of the most refined Parts of Coquetry, and is not to be attained in Perfection, by Ladies that do not Travel for their Improvement.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph