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. Bruce Barton:

   The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

2. Gordon Moore:

   It sure is nice to be at the right place at the right time, i was very fortunate to get into the semiconductor industry in its infancy. And I had an opportunity to grow from the time where we couldn’t make a single silicon transistor to the time where we put 1.7 billion of them on one chip! It’s been a phenomenal ride.

3. Bertrand Russell:

   Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

4. Agnes Repplier:

   In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.

5. Roberta Rafaloff:

   If you go back 40 years to the time when defined contribution plans were in their infancy, they were seen as companion savings plans to pensions, plan sponsors didn’t think of them as a plan for generating income streams until recently.