babyishness
Example Sentences
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DeGarmo has a strange mix of babyishness and variety-show maturity--she's Dr. Seuss's Cindy-Lou Who in Kathie Lee Gifford's pantsuit and 3-in. heels--that has led Cowell to liken her to a "pageant contestant."
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the deepest, the oldest, the most wholesome and religious sense of the value of Nature—the value which comes from her immense babyishness.
From The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The woman's strained nerves were on edge all day, so that her feelings were easily hurt, and her brothers and sisters became, as they thought, justly impatient at what they considered her silly babyishness.
From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call
It is nothing but a farce, mere babyishness.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 by Mary Mapes Dodge
The babyishness of her round fat face, and her brown eyes looking quite ready to cry, touched Mrs. Fairchild, though it is fair to add that she approved of Alie's checking the child.
From The Rectory Children by Walter Crane
