Infancy Synonyms

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Synonyms for Infancy

early-childhood
A stage in human development, generally including toddlerhood and some time afterwards.
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babyhood
The state or period of infancy.
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early stages
Any period of beginning
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minority
(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.
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cradle
The earliest period of life:
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start
An act of beginning; an initial effort:
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nonage
The period during which one is under legal age.
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outset
The beginning or initial stage of something
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opening
A gap, breach, or aperture:
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beginning
That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
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immaturity
Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown
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inception
The definition of inception is the beginning.
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incunabulum
A book printed before 1501; an incunable.
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pupilage
The condition of being a pupil
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Words Related to Infancy

childhood
The state or time of being a child; esp., the period from infancy to puberty
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origin
(Anat.) The less movable of the two points of attachment of a muscle, usually the end attached to the more rigid part of the skeleton
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youth
Young people considered as a group.
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law
An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure:
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adulthood
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old age
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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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