Childish vs Childhood - What's the difference?
childish | childhood |
Of or suitable for a child.
Behaving immaturely.
(uncountable) The state of being a child.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (by extension) The early stages of development of something.
* Shakespeare
As an adjective childish
is of or suitable for a child.As a noun childhood is
the state of being a child.childish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
Synonyms
* (behaving immaturely) infantile, immature, silly, unbecoming, juvenilechildhood
English
Noun
(en noun)Terrie Moffitt] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/richie-poulton et] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/avshalom-caspi al.
Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control, passage=To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.}}
citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood .}}
- the childhood of our joy