childhoodlike

English

Etymology

childhood +‎ -like

Adjective

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.