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(psychology, psychiatry) Childlike behavior by an adult, especially as indicating a mental disorder..
With regard to hysteria; in dissociation there may be a secondary time disorder; for example a patient with puerilism said: "People all seem grown up and older. And my Mum, I'm sure I know her from a long time ago. I look at her, but I can't make it out."
[T]he Dutchman Johan Huizenga, who coined the term puerilism in the 1930s . . . defined it as permanent puberty.
A kind of puerilism marked many American attitudes — an unnaturally extended puerilism which tended to transmute itself into senility alarmingly and swiftly.
Use puerilism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Puerilism means (psychology, psychiatry) Childlike behavior by an adult, especially as indicating a mental disorder..
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With regard to hysteria; in dissociation there may be a secondary time disorder; for example a patient with puerilism said: "People all seem grown up and older. And my Mum, I'm sure I know her from a long time ago. I look at her, but I can't make it out."
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