Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being like a baby; extreme childishness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
babyish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She was a girl who had scant sympathy with what she called "babyishness", and disliked any exhibition of feeling.
The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907
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Oh and then just the pure babyishness of the adolescent politics in the damn thing.
intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated intertribal 2010
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Just as Formula One runs both drivers 'and constructors' championships, so the Premier League 2011-2012 should see the inaugural season of The Plonkership, in which managers would receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness displayed during everything from media outings to interactions with fourth officials.
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In an alternative title chase, managers could receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness
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Why does the media encourage such intellectual babyishness?
These ignorant atheist scientists keep missing the point 2009
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Why does the media encourage such intellectual babyishness?
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I'm trying to bring him up properly - teasing him out of his babyishness, and making him stand on his own feet.
Five Go To Billycock Hill Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1957
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There was too much shyness in her glance, too much babyishness about her mouth.
Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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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.
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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.
Nerves and Common Sense Annie Payson Call 1896
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