tender age
Time of innocence
Tender age refers to early childhood or youth—a period of vulnerability and incomplete development.
The phrase appears most often in legal or formal contexts: at the tender age of six, she lost both parents, children of tender age require special protection.
Tender here suggests delicacy and susceptibility to harm, emphasizing that someone is too young to face certain experiences.
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- early childhoodFirst years of life
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
- youthState of being immature
- infancyEarliest period of life
young child · young · vulnerable · delicate · early years · formative · growing up · impressionable · naive · pure · baby · baby steps · toddler · little one · nursery · cradle · soft · fragile
- age stagesinfant, toddler, child, teen, teenage
- age termsyoung, old, older, younger, youngest
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- maturityadulthood, immature, ripe, unripe, adult
- youth sayingsfountain of youth, salad days, spring chicken, young at heart, forever young
tender ageold age
Advanced years of life
advanced age · ripe old age · twilight years · middle age · adulthood
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