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Meaning of "infantility" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF INFANTILITY

ˌɪnfənˈtɪlɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFANTILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infantility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INFANTILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of infantility in the English dictionary

The definition of infantility in the dictionary is resemblance to a child in action or behaviour; childishness immaturity; puerility. Other definition of infantility is behaviour that is characteristic of infants or infancy.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFANTILITY

antifertility · contractility · disutility · ductility · erectility · fertility · futility · gentility · infertility · inutility · motility · pulsatility · retractility · sectility · subfertility · subtilty · tactility · tortility · utility · vibratility

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFANTILITY

infanta · infante · infanteer · infanthood · infanticidal · infanticide · infantile · infantile paralysis · infantilisation · infantilise · infantilism · infantilization · infantilize · infantine · infantries · infantry · infantry division · infantryman · infantrymen · infants

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFANTILITY

ability · accessibility · availability · capability · compatibility · disability · durability · eligibility · facility · flexibility · functionality · liability · mobility · nobility · possibility · probability · reliability · responsibility · stability · sustainability · visibility

Synonyms and antonyms of infantility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infantility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFANTILITY

Find out the translation of infantility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of infantility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «infantility» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

幼稚
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

infantilismo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

infantility
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

infantility
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

infantility
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

инфантилизм
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

infantilidade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

infantility
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

infantility
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kesederhanaan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Infantilität
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

infantility
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

infantility
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Infantile
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

infantility
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

infantility
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

बालपणाची संख्या
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

çocuksu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

infantility
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

infantility
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

інфантилізм
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

infantility
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παιδικότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

infantility
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

barndoms
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

infantility
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infantility

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFANTILITY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of infantility
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about infantility

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFANTILITY»

Discover the use of infantility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infantility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Margeting: Inventing a Different Marketing Language
Disney does not refer to infantility — it is infantility. Visitors with their caps and silly behaviour become icons of infantility just like Goofy and Donald Duck. Disney refers to a world that the concern itself has produced. However, Disney's ability to ...
André Platteel, 2003
2
The Emotional Foundations of the Human Personality
Chapter. Two. Infantility. The womb as the first abode of new human life is well adapted to its survival needs. Given these ideal conditions there is phenomenal growth of strength and size. A time comes when the womb can no longer ...
Schlomo Riemer, 1998
3
Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line: An Articulation of ...
infantility is far from being a simple penetration of the world of infancy; infantility is more likely to be mobilized in the mother in response to the child's “question” (DL 281). A dialogue is initiated in which infantile language can be heard as a sort ...
Juliana De Nooy, Paul Eggert, 2013
4
Fighting Evil: Unsung Heroes in the Novels of Graham Greene
Let us play a bit with this thought, since it reveals the spiritual infantility that comes to prevail when an entire society fervently embraces the so-called blessings of corporate capitalism. It also reveals what happens when a society — almost all ...
Ḥayim Gordon, 1997
5
Benjamin: Philosophy, Aesthetics, History
9 Benjamin speaks of the speechlessness and the infantility of the tragic hero. As a commentary to the passage in The Star in which Rosenzweig develops his thesis on tragic silence, Benjamin writes: "The speechlessness of the tragic hero,  ...
Gary Smith, 1989
6
Comparative Ethics in a Global Age
It is the idea of infantility as the ultimate social and purely anthropological fragment that underlies the Confucian concept of a model personality, its denomination jun-zi combining two meanings: a “nobleman” and “the ruler's son”. In a similar ...
Mariėtta T. Stepanjanc, 2007
7
Faith, Hope, Love
In both forms of hopelessness—in despair as well as in presumption—the youthfulness of one who hopes is reduced, as it were, to nothingness, but in different ways: in the case of despair, by senility; in presumption, by infantility.
Josef Pieper, 1997
8
Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
The first of these is that mental states can be graded in terms of maturity or infantility, and ordered on an axis reflecting universal developmental stages of the mind. These stages are never permanently overcome: elements of the mind may ...
Sebastian Gardner, 2007
9
The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy
The paradox of the birth of genius in moral speechlessness, in moral infantility, is the sublimity [Erhabene] of tragedy.67 In relation to the discussion above, it is striking that the movement toward a nobler and higher order is identified with the  ...
Dimitris Vardoulakis, 2010
10
The Psychology of Emotion: Morbid and Normal
As can be seen in a critical reading of the cases which we have just been quoting , infantility of content in a manic state is rarely present without there being something slightly unusual about the other symptoms, although these other ...
MacCurdy, John T, MacCurdy John T, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFANTILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infantility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How do we stop misrepresenting First Nations culture? Just ask
... was exacerbated when the native cast of Ridiculous Six rose up and pointed out that even his oft-accepted crude infantility was going too far. «CBC.ca, Apr 15»
2
Why the woman is actually not on top in 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha'
Shakha-babu illustrates the essence of the competition, for instance – he demonstrates the demand for the partner's infantility by making a ... «Scroll.in, Mar 15»
3
Yachad Just 11000 Votes Short
to late! our kingdom is approaching and we are going to have back our elder judges and no more infantility will rule. Reply · Like. · March 18 at ... «Arutz Sheva, Mar 15»
4
Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah's Scientific Thinking 6
... his perpetually-sleeping peers whose intellectual tunnel-visions are trapped in the tangled myopia of uncelebrated scholarly infantility. Prof. «GhanaWeb, Dec 14»
5
The Power of Cute
The subjects rated the images for their cuteness, infantility, pleasantness and excitement. Photos of baby animals generated higher ratings in ... «Scientific American, Dec 14»
6
The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer: Intricate, complex …
... namely, a kind of epistemological scepticism, an acknowledgement of the limits and sheer bluntness and infantility of human reasoning when ... «New Statesman, Sep 14»
7
Is Comic Neue the new Comic Sans – sans the comedy?
... message and the font's added meaning of infantility and fun creates a new meaning of immaturity, unprofessionalism, or pretentiousness. «artsHub Australia, Apr 14»
8
The Wolf Of Wall Street (18) - Sunday Herald view
Most of the film is like this, led by Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) as an amoral arbiter of excess, a pied piper of infantility. Sometimes speaking ... «Herald Scotland, Jan 14»
9
For her eyes only
... says cancer researcher Nils Baas. “This kind of attitude is a manifestation of one's own infantility,” retorts mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky. «New York Post, Jul 13»
10
Stilnox and stupidity
... behaved like dickheads, and far more a question of where was the senior and mature leadership in this team, to curb this natural infantility? «Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 13»
REFERENCE
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