BABYHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does babyhood mean? 

• BABYHOOD (noun)
  The noun BABYHOOD has 2 senses:

1. the early stage of growth or development

2. the earliest state of immaturity

  Familiarity information: BABYHOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BABYHOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The early stage of growth or development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

babyhood; early childhood; infancy

Hypernyms ("babyhood" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Meronyms (parts of "babyhood"):

oral phase; oral stage ((psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting)

Derivation:

baby (a very young mammal)

baby (a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The earliest state of immaturity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

babyhood; infancy

Hypernyms ("babyhood" is a kind of...):

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Derivation:

baby (a very young mammal)

baby (a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk)

baby (an immature childish person)