Antonyms for childhood
ˈtʃaɪld hʊdchild·hood

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1. • Immaturity
   • Time Of Life

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1. childhoodnoun

   the time of person's life when they are a child

   Synonyms:
   puerility

2. childhood, puerilitynoun

   the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

   Synonyms:
   puerility, childishness

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1. childhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   nonage, infancy, minority, impuberty, pupilage

How to use childhood in a sentence?

1. Mrs. Sigourney:

   In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

2. John Berger:

   When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

3. Dorothy Marcic:

   My uncle was a very ambitious, hardworking man who came from a scrappy background, he worked his way up topolice chief, to one of the top investigators in the state of Wisconsin. He was married to his childhood sweetheart, a June Cleaver or Tami from ‘Friday Night Lights.’.

4. Lakshmi Sundaram:

   Governments must draw up and enforce policies that end child marriage, and create alternatives for girls and their families, if governments and civil society organizations don't act now, the number of women married in childhood will increase from more than 700 million today to 1.2 billion by 2050.

5. Eric Bettinger of Stanford University:

   For years, we have known that parental presence is extraordinarily important in the very early childhood years. What we’re finding is that parents continue to be important much further along in a child’s life than we had previously thought.

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