Semichild

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is partly a child, or somewhat childlike.

    "It may seem paradoxical that in a culture that considers women to be cultural outsiders, perennial semichildren, the task of enculturating the young is entrusted to women."

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"It may seem paradoxical that in a culture that considers women to be cultural outsiders, perennial semichildren, the task of enculturating the young is entrusted to women."

Etymology

From semi- + child.

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