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  • noun sexuality One who is subject to infantilism.

Etymologies

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infantile +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • "I was viewed as an infantilist, possibly a pedophile, or victim of abuse myself," he complained in a 1996 essay.

    How Will the Future Judge Him? Richard B. Woodward 2012

  • If Heroic Fantasy can be critiqued as infantilist in its preoccupations, this type of Horror might well be critiqued as adolescent.

    Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

  • If Heroic Fantasy can be critiqued as infantilist in its preoccupations, this type of Horror might well be critiqued as adolescent.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Any movement that builds its core ideology around the worship of an infantilist, developmentally-stunted, self-aggrandizement will inevitably wind up eating its young.

    Thirty Years Too Late: The Implosion of John McCain and the Demise of the Regressive Right 2008

  • Second, while I expected to see lots of bondage, spanking, cross-dressing, and infantilist sites, until the requests began pouring in I had had no idea, for example, that there are enough people sexually aroused by toy balloons yes, the kind you blow up at kiddy parties to support the hundred or so sites which now cater exclusively to that fetish.

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • Second, while I expected to see lots of bondage, spanking, cross-dressing, and infantilist sites, until the requests began pouring in I had had no idea, for example, that there are enough people sexually aroused by toy balloons yes, the kind you blow up at kiddy parties to support the hundred or so sites which now cater exclusively to that fetish.

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • Second, while I expected to see lots of bondage, spanking, cross-dressing, and infantilist sites, until the requests began pouring in I had had no idea, for example, that there are enough people sexually aroused by toy balloons yes, the kind you blow up at kiddy parties to support the hundred or so sites which now cater exclusively to that fetish.

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • Protestant Progressist Consumerist ethos ethos capitalism* Birth of Expansion of Promotion of Time? modern industrial infantilist* Capitalism Capitalism ethos oth … s?

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • All of the features by which we're identifying this type of fantasy and by which many examples of this fiction are judged (by writers like Moorcock in his WIZARDRY AND WILD ROMANCE, for example) to be infantilist and reactionary -- heritage, noble blood, the pre-industrial pastoral, and heroic spectacularism -- fit neatly, I think, with an idea that the strange is used initially to construct a sense of the idyllic, a sense of "rightness" rather than "wrongness".

    Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

  • All of the features by which we're identifying this type of fantasy and by which many examples of this fiction are judged (by writers like Moorcock in his WIZARDRY AND WILD ROMANCE, for example) to be infantilist and reactionary -- heritage, noble blood, the pre-industrial pastoral, and heroic spectacularism -- fit neatly, I think, with an idea that the strange is used initially to construct a sense of the idyllic, a sense of "rightness" rather than "wrongness".

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

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