Definitions for infantile
ˈɪn fənˌtaɪl, -tɪlin·fan·tile

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. childish, infantileadjective

   indicating a lack of maturity

   "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

2. infantileadjective

   of or relating to infants or infancy

   "infantile paralysis"

3. infantileadjective

   being or befitting or characteristic of an infant

   "infantile games"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infantileadjective

   Pertaining to infants.

2. infantileadjective

   Childish; immature.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Infantileadjective

   Pertaining to an infant.

   Etymology: infantilis, Latin.

   The fly lies all the Winter in these balls in its infantile state, and comes not to its maturity 'till the following Spring. William Derham.

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1. infantile

   Infantile refers to characteristics or behaviors that are typical of infants or very young children. It could relate to early childhood development stages or, when used in a derogatory manner, to describe immature or childish behaviors in adults. In medical context, it refers to conditions that begin or are present from birth or infancy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Infantileadjective

   of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior

2. Etymology: [L. infantilis: cf. F. infantile. See Infant.]

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of infantile in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of infantile in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of infantile in a Sentence

1. Fritz Perls:

   To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

2. Olive Schreiner:

   Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

3. John Dingell:

   One of the advantages to knowing that your demise is imminent, and that reports of it will not be greatly exaggerated, is that you have a few moments to compose some parting thoughts, in our modern political age, the presidential bully pulpit seems dedicated to sowing division and denigrating, often in the most irrelevant and infantile personal terms, the political opposition.

4. Erich Fromm:

   Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.” Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.” Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”

5. Albert Einstein:

   Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=infantile
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Infantile
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=infantile
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infantile