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

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

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

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.