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German
Etymology
From Kind (“child”) + -er- + Zeit (“time”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Kinderzeit f (genitive Kinderzeit, no plural)
- childhood
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 1:
An den Neurosen der Kinderzeit haben wir gelernt, daß manches hier mühelos mit freiem Auge zu sehen ist, was sich späterhin nur gründlicher Forschung zu erkennen gibt.- From the neuroses of the childhood we have learned that many a thing can be effortlessly seen here with the naked eye that shows itself later on only to thorough research.
- Synonym: Kindheit
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