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infantile |
infantile amaurotic idiocy |
infantile autism |
infantile fixation |
infantile paralysis |
infantilism
| infantine
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infantilism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun infantilism has 2 senses
- infantilism(n = noun.state) Array - an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics; Array is a kind of abnormalcy, abnormality
- infantilism(n = noun.act) Array - infantile behavior in mature persons; Array is a kind of misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed
has particulars: ateleiosis, ateliosis
OXFORD DICTIONARY
infantilism, n.
1 childish behaviour.
2 Psychol. the persistence of infantile characteristics or behaviour in adult life.
1 childish behaviour.
2 Psychol. the persistence of infantile characteristics or behaviour in adult life.
THESAURUS
infantilism
amentia, arrested development, babyishness, backwardness, blithering idiocy, childishness, cretinism, half-wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, immaturity, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, profound idiocy, puerilism, puerility, retardation, retardment, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, subnormality
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