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Unwisdom vs Childishness - What's the difference?

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Unwisdom is a related term of childishness.


As nouns the difference between unwisdom and childishness

is that unwisdom is lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity while childishness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being childish.

unwisdom

English

Noun

  • Lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.
  • * Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute -
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 151:
    • Reporting from Vietnam in 1945, he may have been the first person to assert the extreme unwisdom of trying to restore French colonialism with British troops.

    childishness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being childish.
  • (countable) Childish behaviour.

    • See also

    * puerilism * puerility