Definition of Infantilization

1. Noun. The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant ¹

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Definition of Infantilization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infantilization

infantile spastic paraplegia
infantile spinal muscular atrophy
infantile tetany
infantilely
infantilisation
infantilise
infantilised
infantilises
infantilising
infantilisms
infantilists
infantilities
infantility
infantilization
infantilizations
infantilize
infantilized
infantilizes
infantilizing
infantine
infantize
infantized
infantizes
infantizing
infantlike
infantly
infantries

Literary usage of Infantilization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Patronage Or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises by Ian Smillie (2001)
"... development by outsiders “as if [villagers] could not develop themselves. This infantilization of the deprived population. . . is the primary reason why ..."

2. Good News from New England: And Other Writings on the Killings at Weymouth by Jack Dempsey (2001)
"American blood pudding is a saccharine substitute for real engagement with the past, an infantilization that forfeits "for" people the chance for perception ..."

3. Adolescent Sexual Development and Sexuality: Assessment and Interventionsby Donna A. Gaffney, Carol Roye, Civic Research Institute by Donna A. Gaffney, Carol Roye, Civic Research Institute (2003)
"... 3-4 Individualism, 4-4 Inductive reasoning, adolescence and, 2-3-2-4 Infantilization, of chronically ill adolescents, 15-2-15-3 Informed consent, ..."

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