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What is the adjective for infanthood?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs infant, infantilize, infantilise and infantize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

infantile
  1. Pertaining to infants.
  2. Childish; immature.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. adolescent, young, baby, childhood, infant, youthful, juvenile, immature, pubescent, vernal, tender, underage, budding, babyish, junior, childlike, childish, prepubescent, boyish, youngish, blooming, tenderfoot, younger, little, teenage, teenaged, kid, undeveloped, growing, girlish, underdeveloped, undergrown, inexperienced, fledgling, unfledged, newborn, developing, small, half-grown, in the springtime of life, growing up, formative, sophomoric, milk-fed, beardless, baby-faced, fresh-faced, fresh, unqualified, untried … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Japan is one of the few developed societies in which empathic infantile care is regarded as indispensable.”
      “We scorned them. To us, they were merely a target for infantile jokes and jibes.”
      “The classification as infantile or juvenile forms depends on the amount of renal disease present.”
infantine
  1. Infantile; childish.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. childish, childlike, youthful, young, boyish, girlish, infantile, adolescent, babyish, juvenile, teenage, teenaged, baby, children's, child's, young-looking, bread-and-butter … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Even when we have relinquished this infantine period, we are seldom left destitute of religious instruction.”
      “But listen and I'll expound in words suitable to your infantine understanding.”
      “We cannot, of course, convey the slightest idea of the infantine Eskimo lisp.”
infanticidal
  1. Of or pertaining to infanticide.
  2. Examples:
      3. “He famously failed to defend the infanticidal Minnie Dean, the first and last woman to be hanged in New Zealand.”
      “But, fortunately, Augustus had heard portions of it, and the imperial veto overpowered the poet's infanticidal desire.”
      “Sentence pronounced by the judge of Savigny on Jan. 1457, condemning to death an infanticidal sow.”
infantly
  1. (obsolete) Like an infant.
infantlike
  1. Like an infant.
infanted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of infant
infantilized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of infantilize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. patronised, patronized, condescended, belittled, humiliated, deigned, demeaned, denigrated, favored, favoured, indulged, snubbed, stooped, treated condescendingly, put down, condescended to, looked down on, talked down to, lorded it over, treated as inferior, treated contemptuously, treated scornfully, treated with condescension, treated badly, treated with disdain, tossed a few crumbs, treated like a child, looked down one's nose at, spoke condescendingly to, spoken condescendingly to, spoke haughtily to, spoken haughtily to, talked down … more
infantilizing
  1. present participle of infantilize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. patronising, patronizing, condescending, belittling, humiliating, deigning, demeaning, denigrating, favoring, favouring, indulging, snubbing, stooping, treating condescendingly, putting down, condescending to, looking down on, talking down to, lording it over, treating as inferior, treating contemptuously, treating scornfully, treating with condescension, treating badly, treating with disdain, tossing a few crumbs, treating like a child, look down one's nose at, speaking condescendingly to, speaking haughtily to, talking down … more
infantilised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of infantilise
infantilising
  1. present participle of infantilise
infantized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of infantize
infantizing
  1. present participle of infantize
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