infantilize
to keep in or reduce to an infantile state.
to treat or regard as infantile or immature.
Origin of infantilize
1- Also especially British, in·fan·til·ise .
Other words from infantilize
- in·fan·til·i·za·tion, noun
Words Nearby infantilize
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How to use infantilize in a sentence
“It is infantilizing to say that the way we get information is to ask an expert and have them just give it to us,” Bender said.
How DeepMind thinks it can make chatbots safer | Melissa Heikkilä | September 27, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewIt is infantilizing to say that the way we get information is to ask an expert and have them just give it to us.
Chatbots could one day replace search engines. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea. | Will Douglas Heaven | March 29, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewIn other words, a time when audiences hadn’t yet been infantilized into a steady diet of comic-book escapism and supernatural fantasy.
Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up | Ann Hornaday | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostBut somehow, over the years, sororities have come to infantilize the women they once sought to empower.
Not only do these "gifts" raise tax issues, they also infantilize the senator and makes him look foolish.
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