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What does infantilism mean?

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Noun
  1. An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant.
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But it might have been a little more questioning of what some would call his innocence and others his infantilism.
If the Scottish parliament doesn't help Scotland emerge from its infantilism, it will not have been worth the effort.
It returned the club experience, and dancing in particular, to infancy, in fact infantilism.
The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
Symonds described similar regressed and dependent behaviour in victims of crime as traumatic psychological infantilism.
It is an extension of their infantilism in not wanting to take responsibility for their actions.

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