1. (n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

2. (n.) The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.

3. (n.) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

babyhood beginnings birth callowness childhood commencement cradle dawn dewiness disability disablement disqualification early emergence freshman year freshness genesis greenness imbecility immaturity inability inadequacy incapability incapacitation incapacity inception inchoation incipience incipiency incompetence incompetency incunabula inefficiency ineptitude inexperience inferiority initial insufficiency juiciness juniority juvenility legal incapacity minority my Angel-infancy nascence nascency nativity nonage origin origination parturition pregnancy rawness rise sappiness stages start the nursery undevelopment unfitness unripeness wardship youth