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

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)

And so Angus laughed at me, and said they might stay, as he'd another pair at home—and teased me terribly over my babyishness.

From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.

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

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)