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English
Etymology
infantilize + -ation
Noun
infantilization (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, “ ‘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, 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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