infancy

Other forms of infancy

plural

infancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about infancy

What does infancy mean?

infancy means "the early stage of growth or development". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in infancy?

infancy has 3 syllables: in-fan-cy. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnfənsi/.

What is another word for infancy?

Close synonyms include babyhood, early childhood, babyhood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is infancy a common word?

infancy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.