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. 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.

2. Colin Kennedy:

   There is a sensitive period in early infancy when if the brain receives the right input, language will develop in a way that it rarely does if the right input is not received until later in life.

3. Kristin Daley:

   Sleep is an area of health and medicine that's strongly politicized, you have the attachment parenting people and the rigorous sleep training crowd, and so starting from infancy there is a marker of' how I'm doing as a parent can be seen in how regulated my kid is.'.

4. John Burkey:

   I think we're still in the infancy of this, it's still such a new thing, and we're all excited about it. My own kids are still in elementary and middle school, so they have not done blended learning yet, but they definitely will when they get to high school.

5. Yashvir Maharaj:

   There is space for three, possibly four key market players, as the market is still in its infancy and will continue to show rapid growth in the future.