babyishness
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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
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
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
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
Yet, she loved him for not knowing, for his boyishness, his babyishness, his simplicity.
From Mount Music by Martin Ross
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