Nursing homes lead to an infantilization of the elderly.
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Infantilization
Synonyms for "infantilization"
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10 translations across 8 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- infantilització noun (Translations)
French
1 entries- infantilisation noun (Translations)
Galician
1 entries- infantilización noun (Translations)
German
3 entries- Bevormundung noun (Translations)
- Infantilisierung noun (Translations)
- Verkindlichung noun (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- infantilizzazione noun (Translations)
Polish
1 entries- infantylizacja noun (Translations)
Portuguese
1 entries- infantilização noun (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- infantilización noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
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In both cases, a key ingredient has been the drastic infantilization of the national culture: from the pious idea of ‘family reading’ that launched the Bowdlerization of Victorian literature, to the syrupy replica—the family, smiling at its TV—that has put American entertainment to sleep.
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In the context of asexuality, it has led to the infantilization of people who are aspec, and in a lot of cases has pressured ace people to have sex, simply because they didn’t think not wanting to have sex was an option.
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