Puerilism vs Childishness - What's the difference?
puerilism | childishness |
Childlike]] behavior by an adult, especially as [[indicate, indicating a mental disorder.
* 1932 , , "The Experience of Time in Mental Disorder," reprinted in Inquiries in Psychiatry (Routledge, 2013), ISBN 9781134052431,
* 1962 , , Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement , ISBN 9781412841931,
* 2004 , , A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century , ISBN 9780300104295,
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being childish.
(countable) Childish behaviour.
Puerilism is a see also of childishness.
As nouns the difference between puerilism and childishness
is that puerilism is childlike]] behavior by an adult, especially as [[indicate|indicating a mental disorder while childishness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being childish.puerilism
English
Noun
(-)p. 14 (Google preview):
- With regard to hysteria; in dissociation there may be a secondary time disorder; for example a patient with puerilism said: "People all seem grown up and older. And my Mum, I'm sure I know her from a long time ago. I look at her, but I can't make it out."
p. xi (Google preview):
- [T]he Dutchman Johan Huizenga, who coined the term puerilism in the 1930s . . . defined it as permanent puberty.
p. 286 (Google preview):
- A kind of puerilism' marked many American attitudes — an unnaturally extended ' puerilism which tended to transmute itself into senility alarmingly and swiftly.