infantilization
infantilization noun: the act or process of infantilizing, treating a non-infant as an infant, or more generally treating an adult like a young child.
Noun
infantilization (countable and uncountable, plural infantilizations)
- The act or process of infantilizing, treating a non-infant as an infant, or more generally treating an adult like a young child.
- Nursing homes lead to an infantilization of the elderly.
- In both cases, a key ingredient has been the drastic infantilization of the national culture: from the pious idea of ‘family reading’ that launched the Bowdlerization of Victorian literature, to the syrupy replica—the family, smiling at its TV—that has put American entertainment to sleep.2013, Franco Moretti, “[Introduction: Concepts and Contradictions] ‘The bourgeois is lost . . .’”, in The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature, London; Brooklyn, N.Y.: Verso, published 2014...
- Antonyms:
- adultification
Antonyms of infantilization
Forms of infantilization
| plural | infantilizations |
|---|---|
| alternative form | infantilisation |
Origin of infantilization
From infantilize + -ation.
Questions about infantilization
- What does infantilization mean?
- Infantilization means the act or process of infantilizing, treating a non-infant as an infant, or more generally treating an adult like a young child.
- What part of speech is infantilization?
- Infantilization is a noun.
- What is the plural of infantilization?
- The plural of infantilization is infantilizations.
Words near infantilization in the dictionary
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