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
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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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 Annie Payson Call
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 Mary E. Hanshew
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 Angela Brazil
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