INFANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infancy mean? 

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

1. the early stage of growth or development

2. the earliest state of immaturity

  Familiarity information: INFANCY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFANCY (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 ("infancy" 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 "infancy"):

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:

infant (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 ("infancy" is a kind of...):

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

The symptoms start before the age of six and may appear at infancy.

(Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

It may cause brain damage in infancy.

(Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The team named the disease STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI).

(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)

A clinical finding indicating less than normal growth in infancy.

(Infant Failure to Thrive, NCI Thesaurus)

Most people get Type 1 infections during infancy or childhood.

(Human Herpesvirus 1, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by a cat-like cry in infancy, microcephaly, mental retardation, growth failure, round face, hypertelorism, and cardiac failure.

(Cri du Chat Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients develop anemia usually in infancy.

(Congenital pure red cell aplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

It is manifested during infancy with cyanosis, dyspnea, and rapidly progressing heart failure.

(Aortic Valve Atresia, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms appear in infancy and include mental retardation, loss of motor skills, abnormal muscle tone, feeding difficulties and a very large head.

(Canavan Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually presents in infancy with signs and symptoms of adrenal insufficiency.

(Congenital Adrenal Gland Hypoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)