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childhood

noun

1 childhood

The time of person's life when they are a child.

Roget 127: youth; juvenility, juvenescence†; juniority†; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood†; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, ... show more

is a specific kind of: time of life.

is a broader term that covers: girlhood, maidenhood, maidhood | boyhood.

has as a part: anal phase, anal stage | latency period, latency phase, latency stage | phallic phase, phallic stage | prepuberty.

derivation: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster.

Dutch: kinderjaren, jeugd
Polish: dzieciństwo

2 childhood

The state of a child between infancy and adolescence.

synonym: puerility.

is a specific kind of: immatureness, immaturity.

derivation: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster | baby, child | adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile.

Moby thesaurus: adolescence, babyhood, beginnings, birth, boyhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, girlhood, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, maidenhead, maidenhood, minority, nascence, nascency ... show more.

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