Infancy vs Toddlerhood - What's the difference?
infancy | toddlerhood | coordinate terms |
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.
The period of one's life in which one is a toddler
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Toddlerhood is a coordinate term of infancy.
As nouns the difference between infancy and toddlerhood
is that infancy is the earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking) while toddlerhood is the period of one's life in which one is a toddler.infancy
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Noun
(infancies)toddlerhood
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Noun
(en-noun)- We've been friends ever since toddlerhood .
City versus country childhoods", The Guardian , +201 December 2014:
- And, like most boring mothers, I fret about schools. Where I grew up, everyone went to the nearest village primary school and the local comprehensive. But here, since the earliest days of Isobel’s toddlerhood , my friends and acquaintances have been engaged in an arms race.