Puerilism vs Puerility - What's the difference?
puerilism | puerility |
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,
The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is insipid or silly.
As nouns the difference between puerilism and puerility
is that puerilism is childlike behavior by an adult, especially as indicating a mental disorder while puerility is the state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.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.