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infantile

adj
/ˈɪnfəntaɪl/

Etymology

Mid-15th century, "pertaining to infants," from Latin infantilis (“pertaining to an infant”), equivalent to infant + -ile, from īnfāns. Sense of "infant-like" is from 1772.

  1. derived from infantilis — “pertaining to an infant”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to infants.

    • infantile paralysis
    • They and the old North London tanks at Richmond long ago were the first engines on which my infantile eyes rested, be it said with an admiration that the years have never dimmed.
    • Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.

  2. Childish

    Childish; immature.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at infantile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at infantile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at infantile

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA