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

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

From Mount Music by Ross, Martin

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 Dodge, Mary Mapes

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

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