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Infantilize vs Infantize - What's the difference?

infantilize | infantize |

As verbs the difference between infantilize and infantize

is that infantilize is to reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant while infantize is infantilize.

infantilize

English

Verb

(infantiliz)
  • To reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant.
  • To treat (a person) like a child.

    • infantize

    English

    Verb

    (infantiz)
  • infantilize
  • * 1992 , Steinar Kvale, Psychology and postmodernism (page 117)
    • Yet the patient is asked to play the stupid game, to infantize himself. Halfway houses with their stupid rules. Telling a thirty-year-old man who has committed no crime to be good or he will not get TV tonight.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 1, author=William Yardley, title=Washington State Debates Strict Bill on Child Products, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Are we ready to infantize 10-year-olds?” he said. }}