Babyishness

Babyishness
Babyish Ba"by*ish, a. Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple. -- {Ba"by*ish*ly}, adv. -- {Ba"by*ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

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  • babyishness — index puerility Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • babyishness — ˈbabyishness [f. as prec. + ness.] The quality of being babyish; childish silliness …   Useful english dictionary

  • babyishness — noun The state or quality of being babyish …   Wiktionary

  • babyishness — n. childishness, juvenility, infantility …   English contemporary dictionary

  • baby — babyhood, n. babyish, adj. babyishly, adv. babyishness, n. babylike, adj. /bay bee/, n., pl. babies, adj., v., babied, babying. n. 1. an infant or very young child. 2. a newborn or very young animal …   Universalium

  • puerility — I noun babyishness, boyishness, childishness, childlike, girlishness, infantilism II index adolescence, minority (infancy) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • childishness — Synonyms and related words: anility, babyishness, boylikeness, caducity, callowness, childlikeness, decline, dotage, dotardism, girlishness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • immaturity — Synonyms and related words: adulteration, amateurishness, amateurism, arrestment, babyishness, brand newness, callowness, childishness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dewiness, erroneousness, fallibility …   Moby Thesaurus

  • infantilism — Synonyms and related words: amentia, arrested development, babyishness, backwardness, blithering idiocy, childishness, cretinism, half wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, immaturity, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental …   Moby Thesaurus

  • puerility — Synonyms and related words: babyishness, boylikeness, callowness, childishness, childlikeness, girlishness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexpedience, infantilism,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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