noun [U]
1 the time when a child is a baby or very young:
to die in infancy
2 the early development of sth:
a time when the cinema was still in its infancy
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for infancy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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