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babiness

babiness is the alternative spelling of babyness.

Meaning of babyness

Noun

babyness (uncountable)

  1. The property or state of being a baby or being babylike.
  2. Babylike physical traits, such as large eyes, theorized by Konrad Lorenz to evoke a caregiving response in adults.

Origin of babiness

From baby + -ness.

Questions about babiness

What is babiness the alternative spelling of?
Babiness is the alternative spelling of babyness.

Words near babiness in the dictionary

  1. babine
  2. Babine-Witsuwitʼen
  3. Babineau
  4. Babineaus
  5. Babineaux
  6. babiness
  7. Babinet
  8. Babinet projection
  9. Babinet's principle
  10. Babington
  11. babingtonite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: babiness (page history and authors); babyness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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