babyishness
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a word derived from
baby.
babynounan infant or very young child.
Example Sentences
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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
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Fluff, for all her extreme fairness and babyishness, had not a doll's face.
From Frances Kane's Fortune by L. T. Meade
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
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
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 Mary Mapes Dodge