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nascency
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nascency has 1 sense
- nascency(n = noun.event) birth, nascence, nativity - the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" is a kind of alteration, change, modification
has particulars: delivery, live birth, posthumous birth, posthumous birth, rebirth, reincarnation, renascence
Derived form adjective nascent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
nascency, n. [L. nascentia. See Nascent.].
State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
nascency
accouchement, babyhood, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth
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