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 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 Crane, Walter

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

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

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

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)