Synonyms for infancy
ˈɪn fən siin·fan·cy

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1. infancy, babyhood, early childhoodnoun

   the early stage of growth or development

   Synonyms:
   babyhood, early childhood

2. infancy, babyhoodnoun

   the earliest state of immaturity

   Synonyms:
   babyhood, early childhood

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1. • Immaturity

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1. infancynoun

   Synonyms:
   babyhood, first part of life

2. infancynoun

   Synonyms:
   beginning, commencement, first age, early period of existence

3. infancynoun

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) minority, nonage, pupilage, childhood

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1. infancynoun

   Synonyms:
   babyhood, minority, nonage, pupilage

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1. List of paraphrases for "infancy":

   childhood, linda, debut, inception

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infancy

   Synonyms:
   Babyhood

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1. John Adams:

   It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

2. James Cawley:

   The Internet was in its infancy when we started.

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourselves.

4. Olive Schreiner:

   Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

5. Simon Chilvers:

   The buzz around the new generation New York men's fashion scene is still relatively in its infancy.