Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being an infant; infancy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Infancy.

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  • noun infancy

Etymologies

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infant +‎ -hood

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Examples

  • Nineteen isn't a midlife-fantasy age to take up golf, of course, but it's not infanthood either, which is when Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began excelling at their chosen crafts.

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  • Nineteen isn't a Walter Mitty-ish age to take up golf, of course, but it's not infanthood either, which is when Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began excelling at their chosen crafts.

    From Late Bloomer to Champion 2009

  • Americans are taught from their infanthood to live in perpetual state of hunger and dissatisfaction.

    Sound Politics: Scenes from Wallingford 2007

  • With a history of digestive problems and an infanthood filled with surgeries and trauma of this nature, I went to the doctor.

    2008 Recounted with Heart and Soul 2008

  • With a history of digestive problems and an infanthood filled with surgeries and trauma of this nature, I went to the doctor.

    Printing: 2008 Recounted with Heart and Soul 2008

  • They also upheld the parental concent portion so I guess you feel infantalizing teenagers is ok since they are so much closer to infanthood anyway and therefore actual are incapable of making up their minds.

    Why Most Americans Support Husband Notification 2005

  • How often have I, a mother of three, looked at my own children and smiled over a memory from their infanthood.

    U. S. House passes Terri's Law - BatesLine 2005

  • The countries with the lowest abortion rates in the world all offer a relatively comprehensive social support system that supports not just the children, but also the mother; and not just for pregnancy and infanthood, but for the long term.

    Pro-life feminism? 2004

  • But a number of the ladies, who were doubtless bored silly with the graves, exclaimed with delight and admiration over the lad, whose blond curls and chubby cheeks set him closer to infanthood than boyhood.

    Slightly Dangerous Balogh, Mary 2004

  • It is a force in all organized human relationships, beginning in infanthood and lasting through old age.

    The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 United States. Dept. of Defense

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