infantile fixation

1. 1.

   an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

   Synonymsarrested developmentfixationregression

   Broaderabnormality

Questions about infantile fixation

What does infantile fixation mean?

infantile fixation means "an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely".

What is another word for infantile fixation?

Close synonyms include arrested development, fixation, regression. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is infantile fixation a common word?

infantile fixation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.