babyishness

Without it there was a certain babyishness to him; he seemed soft and vulnerable.

At the same time, the new-born child in the poem rather magically retains his babyishness.

There's a babyishness to their tubby profiles.

This is merely babyishness posing as adulthood.

Babyishness and weakness.

I'm trying to bring him up properly - teasing him out of his babyishness, and making him stand on his own feet.'

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.

Little as he wanted to do anything about it, the boy's babyishness, his Fauntleroy air, embarrassed and distantly annoyed him: it seemed to reflect on his own manhood.

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.

Writing in The Guardian in 2003, she said: "I am in favour of a smaller war now rather than a far worse war later" and she condemned "the sheer befuddled babyishness of the pro-Saddam apologists".

For all his babyishness, Sam is desperate to connect to his straying wife, and Mr. Lane, that rare comic actor who is not afraid to expose himself completely (a riotously sudsy onstage shower included), makes the audience share that aching hunger.