infantile - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'infantile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Infantile

[ a.]

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

1 . infantile

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- of or relating to infants or infancy

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2 . infantile

[ s]

Meaning (2):
- indicating a lack of maturity

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Meaning (3):
- being or befitting or characteristic of an infant

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Infantile amnesia
Infantile amnesia refers to forgetting the memories of earliest childhood, explained by psychoanalysis as repression. The non-existence of language with which to 'fix' experience
Infantile birth theories
A infantile birth theories is a young child's answer to the question 'where do babies come from?' The navel appears to be a firm favourite.
Infantile sexuality
Infantile sexuality is the concept that made Freud a pariah to the Viennese medical establishment; the idea that infants can have sexual experiences, that the capacity to feel

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