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单词 infantilism
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Definition of infantilism in English:

infantilism

noun ɪnˈfantɪlɪz(ə)mɪnˈfæntɪlɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1Childish behaviour.

    幼稚行为

    his comedy is a blend of slapstick and sentimental infantilism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The game is up: it is declining into infantilism.
    • He loves the rich movement vocabulary and the technical skills, but abhors the coldness and infantilism.
    • Can such paternalism on the part of our rulers lead to anything but infantilism on the part of the people?
    • It returned the club experience, and dancing in particular, to infancy, in fact infantilism.
    • There is a kind of infantilism about the booze and football culture of urban Scotland, and an inability to cope with complicated issues.
    • But it might have been a little more questioning of what some would call his innocence and others his infantilism.
    • It shows the creeping infantilism of American pop culture.
    • It's an example of infantilism, a regressive desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
    • ‘Childhood is most positively valued and fostered when we resist infantilism,’ he said.
    • Over the great band of society where, in 1914, it had been odd and disreputable not to go to church, it was now seen as odd and a form of infantilism to do so.
    • Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
    • The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
    • Of course they write about it all the time, but that is the standard infantilism of French intellectual life.
    • It is an extension of their infantilism in not wanting to take responsibility for their actions.
    • We may operate with economic infantilism, borrowing blithely, ignoring pension schemes and blowing half our annual earnings on rent.
    • The old question was, How can otherwise sensible people, in affirming God as a source of meaning, manifest, such infantilism?
    • Typically, despite the fact that the city's police confessed that more damage was done on the average Saturday night in the city, it was the anarchists and their infantilism that stole the headlines the next day.
    • That points not to an ideological malice worth worrying about but probably to the harmless political infantilism of a zealous minority of Whitlamites.
    • If the Scottish parliament doesn't help Scotland emerge from its infantilism, it will not have been worth the effort.
    Synonyms
    childishness, babyishness, juvenility, puerility, lack of experience, inexperience, unworldliness, naivety, ingenuousness
    1. 1.1Psychology The persistence of infantile characteristics or behaviour in adult life.
      〔心理〕(成人)幼稚病,幼稚型
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He explains, ‘Among the conditions which are expressions of degeneracy of the body are three conditions known as infantilism, masculinism, and feminism.’
      • Even the memory of terror, with the criminal not present, can produce traumatic psychological infantilism.
      • Symonds (1975) described similar regressed and dependent behaviour in victims of crime as traumatic psychological infantilism.
      • In her ten books of poetry, in her two published novels as well as in her reviews and essays there is a response to this challenge not to live a kind of ethical infantilism.
      • Jan follows such an entropic arc, but his initial infantilism makes one wonder if the war has eroded his psyche or merely amplified the selfishness that defined his character long before the violence began.

Definition of infantilism in US English:

infantilism

nounɪnˈfæntɪlɪzəminˈfantilizəm
  • 1Childish behavior.

    幼稚行为

    his comedy is a blend of slapstick and sentimental infantilism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
    • But it might have been a little more questioning of what some would call his innocence and others his infantilism.
    • That points not to an ideological malice worth worrying about but probably to the harmless political infantilism of a zealous minority of Whitlamites.
    • Can such paternalism on the part of our rulers lead to anything but infantilism on the part of the people?
    • Of course they write about it all the time, but that is the standard infantilism of French intellectual life.
    • Over the great band of society where, in 1914, it had been odd and disreputable not to go to church, it was now seen as odd and a form of infantilism to do so.
    • The game is up: it is declining into infantilism.
    • ‘Childhood is most positively valued and fostered when we resist infantilism,’ he said.
    • There is a kind of infantilism about the booze and football culture of urban Scotland, and an inability to cope with complicated issues.
    • It shows the creeping infantilism of American pop culture.
    • If the Scottish parliament doesn't help Scotland emerge from its infantilism, it will not have been worth the effort.
    • We may operate with economic infantilism, borrowing blithely, ignoring pension schemes and blowing half our annual earnings on rent.
    • It's an example of infantilism, a regressive desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
    • The old question was, How can otherwise sensible people, in affirming God as a source of meaning, manifest, such infantilism?
    • Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
    • Typically, despite the fact that the city's police confessed that more damage was done on the average Saturday night in the city, it was the anarchists and their infantilism that stole the headlines the next day.
    • It is an extension of their infantilism in not wanting to take responsibility for their actions.
    • He loves the rich movement vocabulary and the technical skills, but abhors the coldness and infantilism.
    • It returned the club experience, and dancing in particular, to infancy, in fact infantilism.
    Synonyms
    childishness, babyishness, juvenility, puerility, lack of experience, inexperience, unworldliness, naivety, ingenuousness
    1. 1.1Psychology The persistence of infantile characteristics or behavior in adult life.
      〔心理〕(成人)幼稚病,幼稚型
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even the memory of terror, with the criminal not present, can produce traumatic psychological infantilism.
      • Jan follows such an entropic arc, but his initial infantilism makes one wonder if the war has eroded his psyche or merely amplified the selfishness that defined his character long before the violence began.
      • He explains, ‘Among the conditions which are expressions of degeneracy of the body are three conditions known as infantilism, masculinism, and feminism.’
      • In her ten books of poetry, in her two published novels as well as in her reviews and essays there is a response to this challenge not to live a kind of ethical infantilism.
      • Symonds (1975) described similar regressed and dependent behaviour in victims of crime as traumatic psychological infantilism.
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