Definition of Infantile

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Definition of Infantile
	Infantile Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior. Related Definitions: An, As, Behavior, Characteristic, Childish, Infancy, Infant, Infantile, Of, Or, Pertaining, Similar, To

Infantile Quotations

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Aleister Crowley

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
Sergio Aragones

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
Robert Wyatt

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.
John Desmond Bernal

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Joseph de Maistre

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
John Lithgow

Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.
Herman Gorter

Infantile Translations

infantile in German is kindisch
infantile in Italian is fanciullesco
infantile in Norwegian is infantil, barnslig
infantile in Swedish is barn-

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