NASCENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nascency mean? 

• NASCENCY (noun)
  The noun NASCENCY has 1 sense:

1. the event of being born

  Familiarity information: NASCENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NASCENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The event of being born

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

birth; nascence; nascency; nativity

Context example:

they celebrated the birth of their first child

Hypernyms ("nascency" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nascency"):

delivery (the event of giving birth)

live birth (the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation))

posthumous birth (birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother)

posthumous birth (birth of a child after the father has died)

rebirth; reincarnation; renascence (a second or new birth)

Derivation:

nascent (being born or beginning)