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Definitions of infantilize in various dictionaries:
To reduce to an infantile state or condition: “It creates a crisis that infantilizes them—causes grown men to squabble like kids about trivial things” (New Yorker).
To treat or condescend to as if still a young child: “The Victorian physician infantilized his patient” (Judith Moore).
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| to treat someone as if that person were a child, with the result that they start behaving like one: |
| To reduce to an infantile state or condition: "It creates a crisis that infantilizes themcauses grown men to squabble like kids about trivial things ( New Yorker). |
| To treat or condescend to as if still a young child: "The Victorian physician infantilized his patient ( Judith Moore). |
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| Paraphilic infantilism, also known as autonepiophilia, psychosexual infantilism, and adult baby syndrome is a sexual fetish that involves role-playing a regression to an infant-like state. Behaviors may include drinking from a bottle or wearing diapers (diaper fetishism). Individuals may engage in gentle and nurturing experiences (an adult who only engages in infantilistic play is known as an adult baby) or be attracted to masochistic, coercive, punishing or humiliating experiences. Diaper fetishism involves "diaper lovers" wearing diapers for sexual or erotic reasons but may not involve infant-like behavior. Individuals who experience both of these things are referred to as adult baby/diaper lovers (AB/DL). When wearing diapers, infantilists may urinate or defecate in them.There is no recognized etiology for infantilism and there's little research done on the subject. It has been linked to masochism and a variety of other paraphilias. Though commonly confused with pedophilia, t |