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NASCENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nascence mean?
• NASCENCE (noun)
The noun NASCENCE has 1 sense:
1. the event of being born
Familiarity information: NASCENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("nascence" 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 "nascence"):
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)
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