Infant vs Hospitalism - What's the difference?
infant | hospitalism |
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
(legal) A minor.
(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
(obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
* Milton
(psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
(medicine, dated) A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between infant and hospitalism
is that infant is a very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention while hospitalism is (psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers.As a verb infant
is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.infant
English
(wikipedia infant)Alternative forms
* infaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
See also
* sudden infant death syndrome * newborn * neonateVerb
(en verb)- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is infanted out of the same fears.
