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infancy
  1. The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
  2. The state of being an infant.
  3. An early stage in the development of, eg, some technology.
  4. (law) The state of being a minor.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The thymus is a primary lymphoid organ in infancy and early childhood.”
      “The infancy of the internet witnessed the emergence of dial-up connections and basic HTML websites.”
      “From earliest infancy children differ in irritability and quickness of temper.”
infant
  1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
  2. (law) A minor.
  3. (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “My mother was from the Bay State and brought me here when I was an infant.”
infanticide
  1. The murder of an infant.
  2. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
  3. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The practice of infanticide decreased since children could now be used in rudimentary agricultural tasks.”
      “Cases now treated as infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance, as do mercy killings, suicide pacts, and cases of duress.”
      “Hence, if I go on to express my rejection of infanticide by saying that infanticide is wrong I am committed to rejecting abortion.”
infantophobia
  1. The irrational fear of infants, pregnancy, or maternalism.
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infantcare
  1. The act of supervising and taking care of infants.
infantilization
  1. The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant
  2. Examples:
    1. “Like the infantilization of the foreigner, the passive, feminized Asian male is a stereotype.”
      “Halloween, for me, is the gaudiest example of the infantilization of American culture.”
      “This denigration can take the form of devaluating the characters' intelligence through infantilization.”
infantilism
  1. An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It's an example of infantilism, a regressive desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.”
      “He loves the rich movement vocabulary and the technical skills, but abhors the coldness and infantilism.”
      “Symonds described similar regressed and dependent behaviour in victims of crime as traumatic psychological infantilism.”
infantilisation
  1. (chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of infantilization
infantwear
  1. clothing designed for infants
infantswear
  1. clothing designed for infants
infantilist
  1. (sexuality) One who is subject to infantilism.
infantilizer
  1. (pejorative) A person who infantilizes others.
  2. Synonyms:
infantophobe
  1. (rare) Someone with an irrational fear of infants.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The infantophobe clutches their chest in panic whenever they see a baby, deeply gripped by their irrational fear.”
infanticider
  1. (nonstandard, rare) One who commits infanticide
infantility
  1. quality of being infantile
  2. Examples:
    1. “Civilized infantility refers to the fact that the adults in this society act like infants socially in the goals of their relationships.”
      “You will find primitive people, especially, very much bound to their infantility.”
infantileness
  1. quality of being infantile
infaunt
  1. Obsolete form of infant.
infanthood
infantilizations
  1. plural of infantilization
infantilizers
infanticiders
  1. plural of infanticider
infantophobes
infantilisms
infantilists
  1. plural of infantilist
infanticides
infantilities
  1. plural of infantility
infaunts
  1. plural of infaunt
infancies
infants
  1. plural of infant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As it happens, these neurons are also very sensitive to the acoustic boundaries between speech sounds, as are monkeys and human infants.”
      “Unstable infants may be observed under the radiant warmer for several hours, with attention to increased fluid losses.”
      “What induces perpetrators from all walks of life to sexually abuse young children, even infants, often with appalling violence?”
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