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

She was a girl who had scant sympathy with what she called "babyishness", and disliked any exhibition of feeling.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

Yet, she loved him for not knowing, for his boyishness, his babyishness, his simplicity.

From Mount Music by Ross, Martin

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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Frieda had always been such a funny mixture of babyishness and worldly wisdom.

From The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure by Vandercook, Margaret