childishness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
childishness
    n 1: a property characteristic of a child [syn: {childishness},
         {puerility}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Childishness \Child"ish*ness\, n.
   The state or quality of being childish; simplicity;
   harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
   [1913 Webster]
from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CHILDISHNESS. Weakness of intellect, such as that of a child. 
     2. When the childishness is so great that a man has lost his memory, or 
is incapable to plan a proper disposition of his property, he is unable to 
make a will. Swinb. part. 11, Sec. 1; 6 Co. 23. See 9 Conn. 102; 9 Phil. R. 
57.
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "childishness":
      anility, babyishness, boylikeness, caducity, callowness,
      childlikeness, decline, dotage, dotardism, girlishness, immaturity,
      imprudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration,
      indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexpedience, infantilism,
      injudiciousness, irrationality, maidenliness, pompousness,
      puerilism, puerility, reasonlessness, recklessness,
      second childhood, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia,
      senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility,
      senselessness, stuffiness, thoughtlessness, unintelligence,
      unreason, unreasonableness, unsensibleness, unsoundness,
      unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, witlessness
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