Usually means: Regression to childish behavior, interests.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word infantilism:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. infantilism: Merriam-Webster
  2. infantilism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. infantilism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. infantilism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. infantilism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Infantilism, infantilism: Wordnik
  7. infantilism: Wiktionary
  8. infantilism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. infantilism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. infantilism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. infantilism: Dictionary.com
  12. Infantilism (disambiguation), Infantilism (physiological disorder), Infantilism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. infantilism: Rhymezone
  14. infantilism: FreeDictionary.org
  15. infantilism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. infantilism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infantilism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infantilism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. infantilism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. infantilism: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

(Note: See infantilisms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (infantilism)

noun:  An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant.
noun:  (pathology) An appearance like (that of) an infant.
noun:  (sexuality) A paraphilia based on the sight or feeling of diapers, or being diapered.

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