nonage

nonage

noun

Definition of NONAGE

1

the state or time of being a child <the short stories of the novelist's nonage have only recently been discovered by scholars>

Synonyms nonage, springtime, youth

Related Words boyhood, girlhood, toddlerhood; adolescence, juvenescence, minority; immaturity, juvenility; babyhood, infancy

Near Antonyms majority; middle age, midlife; senectitude, sunset, winter

Antonyms adulthood

2

the transitional period between childhood and adulthood <the indiscretions of his long-ago nonage have come back to haunt him now that he's a serious presidential contender>

Synonyms minority, nonage

Related Words boyhood, girlhood, preadolescence, youth; bloom, flush, heyday, prime; majority, maturity; manhood, womanhood; babyhood, infancy