infancy
noun/ˈɪnfənsi/
/ˈɪnfənsi/
[uncountable]- the time when a child is a baby or very young
- in infancy to die in infancy
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesc1- Deaths during infancy have fallen dramatically in the last hundred years.
- He was ill many times throughout his infancy.
- She died in infancy.
- Since his infancy he has been a healthy baby.
- The vaccination is given in early infancy.
- Their first child did not survive infancy.
- from infancy to late childhood
- to survive infancy
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- early
- survive
- survive beyond
- during infancy
- in infancy
- from infancy
- …
- die in infancy
- the early development of something
- in its infancy a time when the cinema was still in its infancy
Extra Examples- This was at a time when the cinema was still in its infancy.
- The new company is still in its infancy.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- early
- survive
- survive beyond
- during infancy
- in infancy
- from infancy
- …
- die in infancy
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin infantia ‘childhood, inability to speak’, from infans, infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant- ‘speaking’ (from the verb fari).
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