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infanˈtility
[f. infantile a. + -ity. Cf. It. infantilità (Florio).]
The fact or quality of being infantile. Also, an instance of infantile behaviour.
1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined 544 Christ..knoweth our infantility, and disdained not to speake with vs..after a childlike fashion. 1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Anal. iii. 31 In these [sc. unreasoned convictions] we shall find his kinship with the primitive and with his own infantility. 1921Discovery May 133/2 Its chief characteristics [sc. of the ‘Personal Unconscious’] are its infantility and its compensatory character. 1928Daily Tel. 28 Aug. 5/2 With amazing veracity and power, Tolstoy portrays all that infantility of the Russian race. 1930A. Huxley Brief Candles 66 He laughed at every naïveté or impertinence she uttered..and..led her on into fresh infantilities. |