童心

どうしん
child's mind
naivete

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どうしん【童心】

¶ → 童心に返って楽しむ

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どうしん【童心】

a child's [childlike] mind [heart]; childlike innocence.

●童心に返る return to the innocence of childhood.

●童心を傷つける[むしばむ] injure [destroy, hurt] the innocence of a child's mind

・童心を傷つけたくない. I don't want the child's hopes crushed. | I don't want to disillusion the child.