infantilization
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edit- infantilisation (Non-Oxford British)
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editinfantilization (countable and uncountable, plural infantilizations)
- The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
- Nursing homes lead to an infantilization of the elderly.
- 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, →ISBN, page 23:
- 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.
- 2020 February 4, “Asexuality, Explained Through Cake”, in The Link[1], retrieved 6 April 2020:
- In the context of asexuality, it has led to the infantilization of people who are aspec, and in a lot of cases has pressured ace people to have sex, simply because they didn’t think not wanting to have sex was an option.
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