Childhood vs Nonage - What's the difference?
childhood | nonage |
(uncountable) The state of being a child.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (by extension) The early stages of development of something.
* Shakespeare
The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
(obsolete, rare) A payment formerly made from to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.
As nouns the difference between childhood and nonage
is that childhood is the state of being a child while nonage is the state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.childhood
English
Noun
(en noun)Terrie Moffitt] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/richie-poulton et] [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/avshalom-caspi al.
Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control, passage=To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.}}
citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood .}}
- the childhood of our joy
Derived terms
* second childhoodSee also
* (wikipedia)nonage
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nounage, corresponding to .Noun
(en noun)- The other he used to recreate himself with, after he had been solemnly Contracted to his intended Spouse who was in her Nonage , and kept her till his Wife was ripe for Consummation.