What's the difference between childlike and youthful?

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.

Youthful


Definition:

  • (a.) Not yet mature or aged; young.
  • (a.) Also used figuratively.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports.
  • (a.) Fresh; vigorous, as in youth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That most of the neoplasms found were adenomas and not invasive cancer may be due to the relative youth of most of those screened.
  • (2) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
  • (3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
  • (4) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
  • (5) Temperature at 3 PM, sensitive skin type, youthfulness, and being male were also independently associated with sunburn.
  • (6) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
  • (7) In addition, youthful onset of tropical diabetic syndrome (J-type diabetes) is extremely rare.
  • (8) Roy Hodgson has opted for youth in his 23-man squad for the World Cup, with Everton's Ross Barkley , 20, and Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, 19, the most eye-catching inclusions for Brazil.
  • (9) The sodium to potassium ratio did contribute to the prediction of blood pressure in girls and when, in youths as well as in adults, both sexes were considered together.
  • (10) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
  • (11) I need to provide services, bring employment and gradually I will take the youth out of the militias.” Where are the world's most war-damaged cities?
  • (12) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
  • (13) The method used was the AFMS questionnaire, which is based on the Matthews Youth Test for Health and a Swedish version of the Jenkins Activity Survey.
  • (14) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
  • (15) Although both men and women throughout history have seen hair as an important aspect of appearance, it is especially important today, in light of the great emphasis on youthfulness.
  • (16) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
  • (17) The frequencies of patients with low thrombocyte monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity (defined as having an activity lower than 1 SD below the mean of a respective control group) were studied in 100 consecutive cases admitted to a clinic for child and youth psychiatry.
  • (18) Elferink told Guardian Australia the CLP had no plans in place to establish a youth court in Alice Springs, and that alcohol and other drug courts established by the former Labor government “didn’t work”.
  • (19) Data from the National Longitudinal Youth Survey (NLSY) were analyzed to study interrelationships between antisocial behaviors in early adolescence (ages 14-15) and late adolescent alcohol and drug use 4 years later (when adolescents were 18-19).
  • (20) In the course of their existence, they came to redefine the issue of pedophilia as one of youth emancipation.