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infantine | infantize |

As an adjective infantine

is infantile; childish.

As a verb infantize is

infantilize.

infantine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Infantile; childish.
  • *1840 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Colloquy of Monos and Una’:
  • *:Man, because he could not but acknowledge the majesty of Nature, fell into childish exultation at his acquired and still-increasing dominion over her elements. Even while he stalked a God in his own fancy, an infantine imbecility came over him.

    • 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. }}