(transitive) To regard (an adult person or animal) as a child; to infantilize.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of neotenize

simple past tense and past participle of neotenize

plural of neotenic

In a neotenous manner.

present participle of neotenize

Exhibiting neoteny

Such an organism

Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult. / (informal) Babyfaced.

(pathology) A transcription disorder that causes failures of expression causing the lack of advancement in development from the state found as a neonatal resulting from genetic anomalies. A developmental disorder that is a state of permanent neoteny, staying in the state of an infant.