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[syn: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nascency \Nas"cen*cy\ (n[a^]s"sen*s[y^]), n. [L. nascentia. See
Nascent.]
State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nascency
n 1: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of
their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency,
nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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