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• n  a property characteristic of a child

• Anyone who actually enjoys reading comix or just wants to learn more about them will be assaulted by the most damnable and depressing spectacle of childishness and mercantilism.
• Steve is a struggling saxophonist who never managed to hit the big time; together, they get involved in a caper, which, for all its superficial childishness, shines a rueful light .
• But the childishness of the exercises, he adds, is the point.

• puerility

News & Articles

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• NEW ROUND OF WHITE HOUSE THUGGERY
  Childishness and thuggishness don’t usually go together. But with this year’s Obama administration’s budget hardball, it’s the norm.
  Oct. 8, 2013 - U-T San Diego

Quotes

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• William Shakespeare in Battle Creek Enquirer
  In fact, I'd say he was in what Shakespeare calls the "Last scene of all . . . second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
• Jacob Weisberg in Atlantic Online (blog)
  As if to supply them with an example, Slate's Jacob Weisberg, wrote over the weekend that the "biggest culprit in our current predicament [is] the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large."