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Infancy

The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

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Immatureness 76% connected

The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.

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Immaturity 76% connected

The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

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Babe 74% connected

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Babe 74% connected

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

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Baby 74% connected

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

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Baby 74% connected

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

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Child 74% connected

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used…

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Child 74% connected

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used…

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Babyhood 92% connected

The state or period of infancy.

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Psychosexual development noun · 78% connection

(psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then…

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-hood unknown · 78% connection

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: period, infant, first, part, life.
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Adolescence noun · 78% connection

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally c…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: period, infant, first, part, life.
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Adolescent adjective · 78% connection

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

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Age noun · 78% connection

The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.

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Anal personality noun · 78% connection

(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by…

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Anal retentive personality noun · 78% connection

(psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve; said to be formed in early childhood by…

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Archaean noun · 78% connection

The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of…

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Begin verb · 78% connection

To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or cours…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: period, infant, first, part, life.
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Branched chain ketoaciduria noun · 78% connection

an inherited disorder of metabolism in which the urine has a odor characteristic of maple syrup; if untreated it can lead to mental re…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: period, infant, first, part, life.
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease noun · 78% connection

a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood; characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the…

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Corniferous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

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Dog days unknown · 78% connection

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early par…

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Dotard verb · 78% connection

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: period, infant, first, part, life.
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Early adverb · 78% connection

In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early b…

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Epilepsia minor noun · 78% connection

epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities); "she has been suff…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: period, infant, first, part, life.
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Eventful adjective · 78% connection

Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

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Handsel noun · 78% connection

A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…

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