Infant vs Adolescent - What's the difference?
infant | adolescent |
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
(legal) A minor.
(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
(obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
* Milton
Characteristic]] of, or relating to, or [[undergo, undergoing adolescence; immature.
* Cowper
As nouns the difference between infant and adolescent
is that infant is a very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention while adolescent is a teenager; a juvenile after puberty.As a verb infant
is to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.As an adjective adolescent is
characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.infant
English
(wikipedia infant)Alternative forms
* infaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
See also
* sudden infant death syndrome * newborn * neonateVerb
(en verb)- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is infanted out of the same fears.
adolescent
English
Adjective
(-)- Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.