babyishness
- a word derived from baby.
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
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)
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)
Yet, she loved him for not knowing, for his boyishness, his babyishness, his simplicity.
From Mount Music by Ross, Martin
Frieda had always been such a funny mixture of babyishness and worldly wisdom.
From The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure by Vandercook, Margaret
