'Infancy' definitions:
Definition of 'infancy'
(from WordNet)
noun
The early stage of growth or development [syn: infancy, babyhood, early childhood]
noun
The earliest state of immaturity [syn: infancy, babyhood]
Definition of 'Infancy'
From: GCIDE
- Infancy \In"fan*cy\, n. [L. infantia: cf. F. enfance. See Infant.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. [1913 Webster]
- The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Their love in early infancy began. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art. [1913 Webster]
- The infancy and the grandeur of Rome. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- babyhood,
- beginnings,
- birth,
- callowness,
- childhood,
- commencement,
- cradle,
- dawn,
- dewiness,
- disability,
- disablement,
- disqualification,
- early,
- emergence,
- freshman year,
- freshness,
- genesis,
- greenness,
- imbecility,
- immaturity,
- inability,
- inadequacy,
- incapability,
- incapacitation,
- incapacity,
- inception,
- inchoation,
- incipience,
- incipiency,
- incompetence,
- incompetency,
- incunabula,
- inefficiency,
- ineptitude,
- inexperience,
- inferiority,
- initial,
- insufficiency,
- juiciness,
- juniority,
- juvenility,
- legal incapacity,
- minority,
- my Angel-infancy,
- nascence,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- nonage,
- origin,
- origination,
- parturition,
- pregnancy,
- rawness,
- rise,
- sappiness,
- stages,
- start,
- the nursery,
- undevelopment,
- unfitness,
- unripeness,
- wardship,
- youth