Infancy Synonyms

ĭnfən-sē
The time of life's beginning
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cradle
  2. babyhood
  3. early-childhood
Any period of beginning
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. babyhood
  2. minority
  3. outset
  4. start
  5. nonage
  6. beginning
  7. childhood
  8. opening
  9. immaturity
  10. inception
  11. incunabulum
  12. early stages
  13. pupilage
  14. early-childhood

Words Related to Infancy

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Infancy Sentence Examples

  • His two sons had died in infancy, and his successor was his only legitimate child, Mary.

  • Factories are still in infancy, but silk is spun.

  • Mark's narratives of the sepulture by Joseph of Arirathea and of the empty tomb are taken as posterior to St Paul; the narratives of the infancy in Matthew and Luke as later still.

  • Of repentance it would seem that she knew as little as of fear, having been trained from her infancy in a religion where the Decalogue was supplanted by the Creed.

  • We must learn to issue from ourselves, transport ourselves back to other times, and become children again in order to comprehend the infancy of the human race.

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