kittenishness

She's good and funny as a woman of a certain age, and an evil genius besides, reduced to mewing kittenishness in Cruise's presence.

Then Carrots––who’d begun to ketch on a little to what the Hen was after––spoke up and told him it was true what Miss Sage had told him about her kittenishness, and she hadn’t meant nothing when she was talking about smacking him; and to show he had no hard feeling, she said, he must have one on her.

He is a man who weighs close onto 150 pounds, though he is as kitteny as anybody when occasion calls for kittenishness.

William Dean Howells, despite a certain jauntiness and even kittenishness of manner, was spiritually of that company.

The effusiveness was irritating, and the overacted kittenishness of the girl made her sick at heart, although she betrayed no sign of her feeling.