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n. The earliest period of childhood, especially before the ability to walk has been acquired.

n. The state of being an infant.

n. An early stage of existence: Space exploration is still in its infancy.

n. Law The state or period of being a minor.

n. The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).

n. The state of being an infant.

n. An early stage in the development of, eg, some technology.

n. The state of being a minor.

n. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

n. The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence.

n. The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

n. Inability to speak distinctly; want of utterance; verbal hesitation.

n. The state of being an infant; the earliest period of life, in formal classification reckoned as extending to the seventh year, but commonly or popularly as including only about two years, or the time of teething, after which childhood begins.

n. In common law, the period of a person's life from birth to the age of majority or legal capacity, at the end of the twenty-first year; nonage; minority.

n. Figuratively, that period in the history, existence, or development of a thing which corresponds to the earliest years of childhood; the first age, beginning, or early period: as, the infancy of the world; the infancy of an institution or an art.

n. the early stage of growth or development

n. the earliest state of immaturity

"The overall prognosis of CMA in infancy is good, with a remission rate of 85 or 90% by 3 years of age (Høst & Halken 1990, Høst 2002), non-IgE-mediated reactions being the quickest to recover (Vanto et al. 2004) …."

time of life    immatureness    immaturity   

topographic infancy   

nonage    minority    childhood    babyhood    babyism   

childhood    boyhood    girlhood    adolescence    manhood