Infantilism

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Infantilism may refer to:

In psychology

• Paraphilic infantilism, a paraphilia involving the desire to wear diapers and/or fantasies of a return to infancy
• Psychosexual infantilism, a concept in psychosexual development introduced by Sigmund Freud

In medicine

• Infantilism (physiological disorder) obsolete use of the term for some developmental disorders and disabilities
• Infantilism, also known as infantile speech, a speech disorder in which early speech stages persist beyond the age they are normally expected to fade
• Hypothalamic infantilism-obesity, or sexual infantilism, synonyms for adiposogenital dystrophy

See also

• Delayed puberty, delayed sexual development symptomatic of several medical syndromes
• Diaper fetishism, a paraphilic attraction to wearing diapers which does not involve fantasies of childlike behavior