Word Meanings - CHILDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The manner characteristic of a child. "Varying childness." Shak.

Related words: (words related to CHILDNESS)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• CHILDING
  Bearing Children; productive; fruitful. Shak.
• VARYING
  a. & n. from Vary. Varying hare , any hare or rabbit which becomes white in winter, especially the common hare of the Northern United States and Canada.
• CHILDHOOD
  1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2. 2. Children, taken collectively. The well-governed childhood of this
• CHILDNESS
  The manner characteristic of a child. "Varying childness." Shak.
• CHILDBEARING
  The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• CHILD
  1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants. 2. A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as,
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• OLIVARY
  Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• DECENNOVAL; DECENNOVARY
  Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. Holder.
• INTERVARY
  To alter or vary between; to change. Rush.
• PSEUDOVARY
  The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also pseudovarium.
• VIVARY
  A vivarium. "That . . . vivary of fowls and beasts." Donne.
• STEPCHILD
  1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. 2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.