infantilism

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But more than that, it will remind those who despair of America’s angry infantilism that we are a country of multiple voices, and a full range of temperaments.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2019

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

Not seldom there is an elder child too, white and weak and fretful, and the subject of "infantilism"; growth stunted, development arrested.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella