infancy

The earliest period of childhood, especially before the ability to walk has been acquired.

The state of being an infant.

An early stage of existence.

The state or period of being a minor.

Inability to speak distinctly; want of utterance; verbal hesitation.

The state of being an infant; the earliest period of life, in formal classification reckoned as extending to the seventh year, but commonly or popularly as including only about two years, or the time of teething, after which childhood begins.

In common law, the period of a person’s life from birth to the age of majority or legal capacity, at the end of the twenty-first year; nonage; minority.

Figuratively, that period in the history, existence, or development of a thing which corresponds to the earliest years of childhood; the first age, beginning, or early period: as, the infancy of the world; the infancy of an institution or an art.

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

The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence.