infantilisation BrE
infantilization AmE

Nothing says "infantilisation of culture" like a grinning adult in a babygro.

But hasn't Lasseter participated in the increased infantilisation of mainstream culture?

Star Wars is responsible for the infantilisation of cinema.

The result of centring all power in Rome was an infantilisation of the local churches.

Hasn't the interminable media-suckled quest for instant gratification resulted in the infantilisation of a generation?

For the first Walloon militants the recognition of Dutch meant job losses, the infantilisation of the culture, and an attack on national unity.

It just proves that in the Peter Pan west we cling to our childhood's like baby's at the teat, infantilisation doesn't even begin to cover it.

When this has been achieved, the learner has reached a state of "infantilisation", which is to say he retains all of his previously acquired knowledge but becomes more open, spontaneous, and creative.

His book, Lost Worlds, on the human tendency towards nostalgia, was published in 2004, and his book, Big Babies, on the infantilisation of Western culture, was published in November 2006.

Individual Education is against the infantilization of the child.

Nearly half of American voters acquiesce in their infantilization by not voting at all.

But when do words of endearment become infantilization?

This infantilization and objectification of the female was seen most heavily in Japan's otaku culture.

This seems to be part of an ongoing infantilization of the American woman, along with an obsession for weighing 90 pounds.

I call it the infantilization of poverty."

Call it the infantilization of politics.

Left unchecked, Barber warns, "infantilization will undo not only democracy but capitalism itself."

Another reason stems from the overall infantilization of teen-agers and college-age men and women.

Any change would be open to the charge that it constituted a further ' infantilization ' of the examination system.

It reframed multilateralism, once a widely accepted foreign policy principle, as weakness and national infantilization.

In 1996, former members criticised what they saw as the misuse of power by a strict obedience leading to an infantilization, which was considered cultic.

The humiliation, the infantilization and most of all the inborn diasporic Jewish fear that runs through that request.

The progressive infantilization of teen-agers in our society is a major problem, and Ms. Leach's contribution to that process will only make things worse.

She was particularly interested in the power dynamics of the doctor/patient relationship and the role of the healthcare institution in the infantilization of patients.

His work explores how mass-produced entertainment and consumerism have led to a kind of infantilization of Japanese culture and contemporary aesthetics.

His themes of infantilization and mutual debasement opposed all party lines and his books were banned in Communist Poland.

I'm not sure what's worse - still reducing women to their reproductive capacities, or the presumptive infantilization that suggests that we're all looking for another mommy.

Among the appeals and racial stereotypes of early blackface performance were the pleasure of the grotesque and its infantilization of blacks.

As they introduced themselves, first names only, they talked of professional stagnation, personal stultification, pressure to bill long hours, tedium, sexism, degradation, infantilization and gamesmanship.

"This Ellis Island commotion really represents the infantilization of politics," he added, "driving it down to the seventh-grade level: 'My state whipped your state.' "

Alan Charles Kors, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, considers the changes to be a kind of infantilization of the student body.

The stereotypes and infantilization of older and younger people by patronizing language affects older and younger people's self-esteem and behaviors.

The term was introduced with the aim of counterbalancing the tendency of "infantilization of play" and stressing the "complicities between technology and pleasure".