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

And as for the divine silliness, ignorance, softness and babyishness that had so deeply fascinated him, just those were what got most on to his nerves.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von

Fluff, for all her extreme fairness and babyishness, had not a doll's face.

From Frances Kane's Fortune by Meade, L. T.

Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend.

From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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 Call, Annie Payson