Childhood synonyms
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nursery days
growing years
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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(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.
tender age
A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase:
adulthood (antonym)
The time of life when one is expected to take responsibility for one's own actions and well-being.
More generally used to describe a person prior to the age of majority.
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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.
Of or having to do with infants or infancy
A deterioration of mental faculties associated with aging.
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
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Not interesting; dull:
Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish
Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
(Uncountable) The state of being childish.
Plural form of descendant
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All of a person's descendants
A child or children of a parent or parents:
An instance of this
early-childhood (related)
early-life (related)
boyhood (related)
schooldays (related)
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school-days
the cradle
declining years (antonym)
juvenilia
Books for children
pupilage
The period during which one is a pupil
juniority
The quality or state of being junior.
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pubescence
The quality or state of being pubescent
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: nursery days, growing years, early years, youth, juvenility, babyhood, nonage, pediatrics, minority, tender age and adolescence.
