What's the difference between childless and childlike?

Childless


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the number of childless elderly persons increasing, such systems would partially compensate for the lack of family assistance through neighbourhood and other forms of self-support.
  • (2) Our work is based on the hypothesis, that a perceivable change in BAMA and in how the patients relate to their wanting a child, represents the solution of the problem, which facilitates the consequential events of either pregnancy or acceptance of childlessness or else adoption.
  • (3) Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession only because the 3rd Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became 4th Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald’s father, Robert Grosvenor, who farmed in Northern Ireland and lived on an island in Lough Erne.
  • (4) At one point, Walters speculates that “she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st”; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss “the cruel comments about being a ‘childless spinster’”, neither telling readers who made those “cruel comments” in the first place, or where.
  • (5) In addition, attendance at religious services, number of hours the respondents desired to work and education (for women only) were related to childlessness.
  • (6) Since 1978 many healthy children have been born after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, fulfilling the wishes of many previously childless couples.
  • (7) To better understand voluntary childlessness in America, attitudinal, motivational, and demographic factors associated with the phenomenon are examined.
  • (8) A half-mum with one foot in the childless camp.
  • (9) Childless women are perceived by others as well as themselves to be harder working in the office.
  • (10) Less than 10% of Norwegian women born during the period 1935-50 are still childless.
  • (11) Therefore, it is concluded that both declining childlessness and declining average age at marriage are attributable to some other variable, perhaps social change.
  • (12) Pensioners and the childless remain unscathed so far.
  • (13) An increasing number of young, childless women currently seek tubal ligation for fertility control.
  • (14) Overall, the rate of voluntary childlessness was not high.
  • (15) The Bishop of Ripon, John Packer, said: "It cannot be right for the cap to be the same for a childless couple as for a couple with children.
  • (16) Corresponding findings in 100 healthy control subjects were: involuntary childlessness in three despite normal Fallopian tubes, one ectopic in 147 intrauterine pregnancies, and chronic abdominal pain in five cases.
  • (17) Demographically, they are more likely to be unmarried, childless, and have higher incomes than other Canadian women.
  • (18) In this paper we examine both attitudinal and demographic factors associated with childlessness in the United States.
  • (19) Life history data for a British cohort born in 1946 show that age at marriage and marital breakdown were clearly associated with childlessness.
  • (20) Specific cultures were used to detect growth of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (NG) in 90 ejaculates of partners of childless marriages.

Childlike


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It seemed to me watching the film that the concept of the cloud was another great piece of airy obfuscation on the part of the internet corporations, who like to peddle the childlike and the playful in the way that banks used to flog you credit cards called Smile and Egg and Marbles and Goldfish, to encourage you not to think too hard about the small print (what could possibly go wrong?).
  • (2) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?
  • (3) And it's important to understand the difference between being childlike and being childish.
  • (4) A story of childlike simplicity that would pose the big questions.
  • (5) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
  • (6) In a shocked state, with our understanding of the world badly shaken, a great many of us can become childlike and passive, and overly trusting of people who are only too happy to abuse that trust.
  • (7) It isn't just her size – she is 4ft 11in, and has the tiniest hands I've seen of anyone over the age of eight – that makes her seem childlike; she also has an openness and cheerful excitability, and not a trace of cynicism.
  • (8) This is the martyrdom of an entire sex and it is foolish and childlike, made by babes.
  • (9) Umar, a childlike 30-year-old from Rebo with a maniacal laugh, was diving for tin in exactly the same manner when his four metre-deep underwater ditch collapsed around him, knocking away his mask and air tube.
  • (10) "He's quite childlike," he says, in awe of the musician he met on the road in Japan in 2002.
  • (11) It's a quintessentially childlike sensibility, and one we could all use a bit more of.
  • (12) Dan Kanemitsu, a manga translator, accused de Boer-Buquicchio of “mixing reality with fiction”, adding that there was a difference between abusive images featuring actual children and depictions of childlike characters in manga.
  • (13) Six psychosocial transactional patterns--negativistic, attention centering, distracting, childlike, attractive, and self-punishing--are identified.
  • (14) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
  • (15) It was almost childlike – he was always putting people into different jobs.” For all that he was a remote figure who found it difficult to trust people, Prince provoked a store of good memories in Poole.
  • (16) Acquiring cross-cultural sensitivity involves regression to childlike openness for new values, attitudes, and behaviors.
  • (17) Scott was drawn to the early Italians and to the primitive realism of the Cornish painters Christopher Wood and Alfred Wallis – he had a lifelong interest in childlike art, "the beauty of the thing being badly done".
  • (18) In a prospective study the psychomotor development up to the end of the second year of life of 409 preterm and term newborn infants was examined in order to identify which optimality score might be associated with disturbances of normal childlike development.
  • (19) Her parents Jenny Slate comes from a family of funny voices: hers is childlike, her mother's is deep, and her father's is high and delicate.
  • (20) In particular, they do not realise that an artist is childlike, not childish.

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