infancynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈɪn.fən.si/us/ˈɪn.fən.si/C2 the time when someone is a baby or a very young child:
Her youngest child died in infancy.
be in its infancy
C2 to be very new and still developing:
The system is still in its infancy.
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Stages of life
- adolescence
- adulthood
- arrive
- autumn
- autumn years idiom
- babyhood
- decline
- get on
- girlhood
- glory days
- golden age
- heyday
- middlescence
- midlife
- midlife crisis
- old age
- prime
- twilight
- twilight years idiom
- youth
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