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infancy
[ in-fuhn-see ]
noun
plural infancies.
- the state or period of being an infant; very early childhood, usually the period before being able to walk; babyhood.
- the corresponding period in the existence of anything; very early stage:
Space science is in its infancy.
- infants collectively.
- Law. the period of life to the age of majority, 21 years at common law but now usually 18; minority; nonage.
infancy
/ ˈɪ²Ô´ÚÉ™²Ô²õɪ /
noun
- the state or period of being an infant; childhood
- an early stage of growth or development
- infants collectively
- the period of life prior to attaining legal majority (reached at 21 under common law, at 18 by statute); minority nonage
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He would have been one of 13 children, but two died in infancy.
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And there is the artificial intelligence revolution in the infancy of its influence.
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"The eVTOL aircraft industry is still in its infancy with initial operations a few years away, but it also needs to train large numbers of pilots in the coming years," he says.
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This is not, it must be stressed, a criticism of Tuchel, whose tenure in its infancy.
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The smartphone may then have been unimaginable — Alexander Graham Bell was barely out of infancy —yet the impulse to reach for it was already there.
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