prechildhood

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ childhood

Noun

prechildhood (uncountable)

1. A period before childhood.
   • 1991, Wendy Larson, Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer, page 66:

     Shen's autobiography integrates bizarre aspects of his childhood and prechildhood into the first part of the text that covers the background of his birth or young childhood before his participation in the military.