MetaGlossary.com: Infancy

Keywords: Wordsworth, Helplessness, Toddler, Afterward, Childhood

Related Terms: Baby, Childhood, Adolescence, Age, CrèChe, DéButante, Dotage, Early, Infant, Infanticide, Initiate, Juvenile, Kindergarten, Neonatal, Neonate, Old , Precocious, Primipara, Teens, Toddler, Weanling, Yearling, Young, Youth, Ecse, Generation, Neoteny, Infant Mortality, Attachment, Chronological Age, Developmental Delay, Sensorimotor Stage, Infant Mortality Rate, Preschool, Wheel Of The Year, Preoperational Stage, Infant Death, Children, Old Age, Neonatal Death, Corrected Age, Postneonatal Death, Dependent Children, Family Life Cycle, Early Childhood, Infantilism, Weaning, Developmental, Coming Of Age

The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies about us." The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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

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The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.

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The first year of life, or the stage of life before a baby begins to walk, at which time she/he becomes a toddler (definitions vary)

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the early stage of growth or development

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The period of helplessness and dependency in humans and other organisms; in humans, roughly the first 2 years.

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