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Infancy vs Newborn - What's the difference?

infancy | newborn |

As nouns the difference between infancy and newborn

is that infancy is the earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking) while newborn is a recently born baby.

As an adjective newborn is

recently born.

infancy

English

Noun

(infancies)
  • The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
  • The state of being an infant.
  • An early stage in the development of, eg, some technology.
  • (label) The state of being a minor.

    • newborn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • recently born.
  • born anew, reborn.

    • Noun

  • A recently born baby.

    • Synonyms

    * neonate