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enfancy

enfancy is the obsolete form of infancy.

Meaning of infancy

Noun

infancy (countable and uncountable, plural infancies)

  1. The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
  2. The state of being an infant.
  3. (figuratively) An early stage in the development of anything.
    • Space tourism is still in its infancy.
  4. The state of being a minor.

Questions about enfancy

What is enfancy the obsolete form of?
Enfancy is the obsolete form of infancy.

Words near enfancy in the dictionary

  1. enfame
  2. enfamish
  3. enfamished
  4. enfamishes
  5. enfamishing
  6. enfancy
  7. enfant de coeur
  8. enfant terrible
  9. enfantement
  10. enfantements
  11. enfants terribles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enfancy (page history and authors); infancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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