Dictionary Definition
nascency n : the event of being born; "they
celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascence] [ant: death]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈneɪsənsi/
Noun
- A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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