childishness

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It would have been part of the joy, three months ago, to talk over his loving perception of Imogen's little foibles and childishnesses, to laugh, with a loving listener, over her little complacencies and pomposities.

From A Fountain Sealed by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

His little childishnesses are delightfully set forth; so, too, is his awe of aristocracy.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

Bacon shared in what may he called, without a sneer, the childishnesses of his time, childishnesses often combined with mature powers and profound thought.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various