NOUN
- an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics
- infantile behavior in mature persons
How To Use infantilism In A Sentence
- It shows the creeping infantilism of American pop culture.
- It returned the club experience, and dancing in particular, to infancy, in fact infantilism.
- If the Scottish parliament doesn't help Scotland emerge from its infantilism, it will not have been worth the effort.
- Of course, her love for him is unreciprocated, as he toys with her heart and then leaves her, quickly tiring of her infantilism and naïveté.
- Over the great band of society where, in 1914, it had been odd and disreputable not to go to church, it was now seen as odd and a form of infantilism to do so.
- But it might have been a little more questioning of what some would call his innocence and others his infantilism.
- It is an extension of their infantilism in not wanting to take responsibility for their actions.
- He loves the rich movement vocabulary and the technical skills, but abhors the coldness and infantilism.
- That points not to an ideological malice worth worrying about but probably to the harmless political infantilism of a zealous minority of Whitlamites.
- Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.