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
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
Maybe these recent tubs of guts exist to reassure Americans of their own ever-increasing waistlines, are embodiments of the new infantilism or just a recycled familiar type.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2011
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
