puerility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PUERIL'ITY, noun [Latin puerilitas, from puer, a boy.] 1. Childishness; boyishness; the manners or actions of a boy; that which is trifling. 2. In discourse, a thought or expression which is flat, insipid or childish.
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