childishness
Example Sentences
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Resigned to the privileged childishness of her dominant lover, the narrator comes to a clearer understanding of her own human fallibility.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
If you knew what lovely neighbors they are, I think you might regret your childishness.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
As hilarious as their childishness was as young men, it's even funnier and a tad more haunting when viewed in the form of late middle age folds and sags.
From Salon ● May 20, 2022
In a household filled with impulsive, appetitive childishness, Kimberly, who has to feed Pattie her morning cereal because both her arms are in casts, is the adult by default.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
Thanks to my constitutional childishness, they have always sounded to me like the names by which the Three Musketeers really should have been known: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
