infantilism

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“Someone with her intelligence level, matched with an incredibly juvenile infantilism, when those two things come together well, that’s comedy magic,” Seinfeld says.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2018

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

“I Dream of Jeannie” is certainly far more anachronistic, yet its infantilism is somehow invincible, imperturbable, timeless.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2011

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