different between infantilism vs anaclitism

English

Etymology

infantile +? -ism

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?fænt?l?zm/

Noun

infantilism (usually uncountable, plural infantilisms)

1. An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant.
2. (sexuality) A sexual dependency on the sight or feeling of diapers, or being diapered.

Related terms

• infantilist

Translations

References

• infantilism at OneLook Dictionary Search

Romanian

Etymology

From French infantilisme

Noun

infantilism n (uncountable)

1. infantilism

Declension

English

Etymology

See anaclisis.

Noun

anaclitism (plural anaclitisms)

1. (psychology) The pattern of deriving adult sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. The fetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well.
2. (psychology) In Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.

Synonyms

• anaclisis

See also

• fetishism
• infantilism
• babyism
• paraphilic infantilism

References

• Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J.-B. (1973). The Language of Psycho-Analysis. W. W. Norton and Company. ?ISBN, entry: "Anaclisis; Anaclitic (or Attachment)".

Anagrams

• talismanic