infantilism
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Others might speculate on this, but only I can truly channel Trump, since only I possess the requisite degree of infantilism:
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2021
He’s speaking about how she catches the “physical awkwardness, social infantilism and self-regard” of certain men.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2016
Not even Tolkien’s vast philological scholarship, his deep knowledge of mythology, and his world-building skills could impress what Moorcock and company saw as a troublesome infantilism inherent in Tolkien’s work.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2014
Even my son’s embarrassed by the infantilism of my tastes, but there’s some good stuff out there now.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2014
In a most interesting lecture Brissaud shows the intimate relation between myxedema, endemic cretinism, sporadic cretinism, or myxedematous idiocy, and infantilism.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
