childlikeness|ˈtʃaɪldlaɪknɪs| [f.prec. + -ness.] Childlike quality. 1814H. C. Robinson Diary I. xvii. 432 Schiller says all great men have a childlikeness in their nature.1870Farrar Witn. Hist. ii. (1871) 62 The humility and childlikeness demanded by Christianity.