infantilism

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One East London park, he notes, has now become the “site of elective infantilism: mature adults on psychedelic skateboards bopping to earworm infills.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2018

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