- infantilism
- noun Date: 1895 1. retention of childish physical, mental, or emotional qualities in adult life; especially failure to attain sexual maturity 2. an act or expression that indicates lack of maturity
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Infantilism — may refer to one of the following.Interests and mainly psychological conditions: *Paraphilic infantilism involves the desire to wear diapers and be treated as an infant or toddler. *Psychosexual infantilism, a concept introduced by FreudMainly… … Wikipedia
infantilism — INFANTILÍSM s.n. Anomalie în dezvoltarea corporală şi psihică, caracterizată prin persistenţa, la vârsta adultă, a unor trăsături morfologice şi funcţionale specifice copilăriei. – Din fr. infantilisme. Trimis de valeriu, 21.07.2003. Sursa: DEX… … Dicționar Român
infantilism — index puerility Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
infantilism — 1894 in a psychological sense; see INFANTILE (Cf. infantile) + ISM (Cf. ism). Earlier in a physiological sense, retarded and imperfect physical development … Etymology dictionary
infantilism — [in fan′ti liz΄əm; ] also [ in′fənti lis΄əm] n. 1. immature or childish behavior 2. Psychol. an abnormal state in which such behavior persists into adult life: it is marked by retarded mental and physical growth and by failure to mature sexually … English World dictionary
Infantilism (obsolete usage) — See Infantilism for other uses of the term In medicine, Infantilism is an obsolete term for various, often unrelated forms of disorder of human development, up to developmental disability, which consist in retention of the physical and/or… … Wikipedia
infantilism — /in feuhn tl iz euhm, tuy liz , in fan tl iz euhm/, n. 1. the persistence in an adult of markedly childish anatomical, physiological, or psychological characteristics. 2. an infantile act, trait, etc., esp. in an adult. 3. a speech disorder… … Universalium
infantilism — noun /ɪnˈfæntɪlɪzm/ a) An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant. b) A sexual dependency on the sight or feeling of diapers, or being diapered. See Also: infantilist … Wiktionary
infantilism — 1. A state marked by slow development of mind and body. SYN: infantile dwarfism. 2. Childishness, as characterized by a temper tantrum of an adolescent or adult. 3. Underdevelopment of the sexual organs. Bri … Medical dictionary
infantilism — Synonyms and related words: amentia, arrested development, babyishness, backwardness, blithering idiocy, childishness, cretinism, half wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, immaturity, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental … Moby Thesaurus
