infantilization
About 0.03 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The act or process of infantilizing, treating a non-infant as an infant, or more generally treating an adult like a young child.
Nursing homes lead to an infantilization of the elderly.
Similar words
juvenilization adultization infantcare educationalization thingification paternalization sexualization illegalization devirginization medicalization
Often followed by
of and is that by in as was
Word family
infantilizations infantilize infantilized infantilizes infantilizing
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