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Infantize vs Infantile - What's the difference?

infantize | infantile |

As a verb infantize

is infantilize.

As an adjective infantile is

pertaining to infants.

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. }}

    infantile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to infants.
    • infantile paralysis
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=9 citation , passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile . It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
  • Childish; immature.

    • Synonyms

    * (childish) puerile

    Derived terms

    * infantilely * infantilize