puerilism
/ˈpjʊərɪlɪz(ə)m/ /ˈpjɔːrɪlɪz(ə)m/Psychology and Psychoanalysis
noun
The state or condition of behaving like a child; childish behaviour or childishness; specifically (a) (in an adult) a reversion to infantile behaviour, usually as a symptom of mental disorder; (b) (in a child) the stage of normal development which follows infantilism and precedes puberty.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in The Daily Courier. From puerile + -ism.
- refrangible
- refreeze
- refrenation
- refresh
- refreshen
- refreshened
- refreshener
- refresher
- refresher course
- refreshful
- refreshing
- refreshing fee
- refreshingly
- refreshingness
- refreshment
- Refreshment Sunday
- refresh rate
- refried beans
- refrigerant
- refrigerate
- refrigerated
- refrigeration
- refrigeration anaesthesia
- refrigeration anesthesia
- refrigerative