Nascency

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nascency \Nas"cen*cy\ (n[a^]s"sen*s[y^]), n. [L. nascentia. See
     {Nascent}.]
     State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  nascency
       n : the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their
           first child" [syn: {birth}, {nativity}, {nascence}] [ant:
            {death}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "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