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Etymology

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From childhood +‎ -like.

Adjective

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childhoodlike (comparative more childhoodlike, superlative most childhoodlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of childhood.
    • 1985, Pat Nuse Clark, Pat Nuse Pratt, Anne S. Allen, Occupational therapy for children:
      Society prefers to keep handicapped people in a childhoodlike state, thereby ignoring sexual needs.