| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childhood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, infancy, youth, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, juniority, juvenility, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age, youth |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | infancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | babyhood |
| Synonyms: | beginning, childhood, immaturity, inception, incunabulum, minority, nonage, outset, pupilage, start |
| Antonyms: | old age |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the time before one is of legal age |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, immaturity, pubescence, youth, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, group, immaturity, nonage, pupilage |
| Antonyms: | majority |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |