Childhood synonyms and antonyms
chīld'ho͝od'
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Part of speech:
growing years
nursery days
early years
Young people considered as a group.
The quality or condition of being juvenile; youthfulness.
The period during which one is under legal age.
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A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase:
tender age
More generally used to describe a person prior to the age of majority.
maturity (antonym)
The definition of maturity is adulthood, or is the state of being fully developed, or the time when a note is due and payable.
The definition of childish is a person or thing that is silly, immature, like a child or directed at children.
The definition of immature is something that isn’t fully grown or developed.
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Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish
A deterioration of mental faculties associated with aging.
adulthood (antonym)
The time of life when one is expected to take responsibility for one's own actions and well-being.
(Politics, used attributively of a party, government, etc.) Empowered by or representing a minority (usually a plurality) of votes cast, legislative seats, etc., rather than an outright majority thereof.
The stage of physical development when secondary sex characteristics develop and sexual reproduction first becomes possible: in common law, the age of puberty is generally fixed at fourteen for boys and twelve for girls
Of or having to do with infants or infancy
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An instance of this
the cradle
Not interesting; dull:
Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
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(Uncountable) The state of being childish.
Plural form of descendant
All of a person's descendants
A child or children of a parent or parents:
early-childhood (related)
early-life (related)
boyhood (related)
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schooldays (related)
school-days
declining years (antonym)
juvenilia
Books for children
pupilage
The period during which one is a pupil
pubescence
The quality or state of being pubescent
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juniority
The quality or state of being junior.
impuberty
The condition of not having reached puberty.
infantility
Quality of being infantile
puerilism
Childish behavior in an adult, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
Find another word for childhood. In this page you can discover 46 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for childhood, like: growing years, nursery days, early years, babyhood, youth, juvenility, nonage, adolescence, tender age, infancy and teens.
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