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n. The time or state of being a child.

n. The early stage in the existence or development of something: the childhood of Western civilization.

n. The state of being a child.

n. The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.

n. The early stages of development of something.

n. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

n. Children, taken collectively.

n. The commencement; the first period.

n. The state of being a child, or the time during which a person is termed a child; the time from birth to puberty; in a more restricted sense, the state or time from infancy to boyhood or girlhood; the period during which constant maternal care continues to be needed.

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

n. the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

"Inasmuch as the symptoms of this latter come to differ from those of childhood proper, not abruptly, but gradually, the first years, at least, of youth will often come under our consideration, and I shall speak of this period of life as the _third period of childhood_."

age    maturity   

immatureness    immaturity   

second childhood   

second childhood   

infancy    youth    puerility    minority    pupilage   

boyhood    youth    past    infancy    love