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child-nature

child-nature noun: the natural behaviour and dispositions of children, as opposed to adults.

Noun

child-nature (uncountable)

  1. The natural behaviour and dispositions of children, as opposed to adults.
    • We all admit now that the Child does not come into the world with a mental tabula rasa of entire forgetfulness but on the contrary as the possessor of vast stores of sub-conscious memory, derived from its ancestral inheritances; we all admit that a certain grace and intuitive insight and even...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 173

Questions about child-nature

What does child-nature mean?
Child-nature means the natural behaviour and dispositions of children, as opposed to adults.
What part of speech is child-nature?
Child-nature is a noun.

Words near child-nature in the dictionary

  1. child-minded
  2. child-minding
  3. child-minds
  4. child-molester
  5. child-molesters
  6. child-nature
  7. child-rearing
  8. child-toucher
  9. child-touchers
  10. Child.
  11. childbearer

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