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Institutional vs Hospitalism - What's the difference?

institutional | hospitalism |

As an adjective institutional

is of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.

As a noun hospitalism is

(psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers.

institutional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
  • Instituted by authority.
  • Elementary; rudimentary.
    • (Webster 1913)

    hospitalism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia hospitalism) (-)
  • (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)