The problem is the authenticity it doesn't have: childlikeness.

If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice.

And we grown people commit many more such than little children, and have our reward in childishness instead of childlikeness.

That she should think of herself as "a bad girl," suggests a childlikeness and naivet'e that is startling even for those Victorian times.

Fluxus artists shared several characteristics including wit and "childlikeness", though they lacked a consistent identity as an artistic community.

That she does not speak adds to her childlikeness and seeming naïvete, yet she often is the boldest of all the characters.

Here was a brilliant man of science, humble and self-effacing, naive to the point of childlikeness, warm, personable, and unforgettable.

Tachi is sometimes applied to inanimate objects, kuruma 'car' and kuruma-tachi, 'cars', for example, but this usage is colloquial and indicates a high level of anthropomorphisation and childlikeness, and is not more generally accepted as standard.

This regression of the superego and degradation of the ego was readily noticed by Spanish visitors to the Inca empire who commented on the lack of personality development and the general childlikeness of the Indians: