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nascence

/ˈneɪ.səns/

nascence noun: birth.

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Noun

nascence (countable and uncountable, plural nascences)

  1. (rare) Birth.
    • He had discerned that I was with child. He was a physician first. When he came around offering to see me through my baby's nascence, Mother so thoroughly scolded him for his audacity that he was again left speechless. "I will see to the birth ..."2004, Linda Dorrell, The Trees of Eden: A Novel, Fleming H Revell Company, →ISBN
  2. Coming into being; inception, beginning.
    • Careful examination of Romaine's prophecy reveals the operative nature of the Kongolese religious habitus in the nascence of Haitian Vodou, a religion that truly began to crystallize during the Revolution.2014, Terry Rey, Bourdieu on Religion: Imposing Faith and Legitimacy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 119

nascence meaning in Urdu and Bengali

nascence in Urdu

نوخیزی

nascence in Bengali

জন্ম, অস্তিত্বে আসা, সূচনা, শুরু

Synonyms of nascence

Forms of nascence

pluralnascences

Origin of nascence

Adapted borrowing of Latin nāscentia + -ence, from nāscentem (“arising young, immature”), present participle of nāscī (“to be born”) (Old Latin gnāscī; see genus). Doublet of nascency.

Words formed from nascence

Questions about nascence

What does nascence mean?
Nascence means birth.
What is nascence in Urdu?
Nascence in Urdu is نوخیزی. See Nascence meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is nascence?
Nascence is a noun.
How do you pronounce nascence?
Nascence is pronounced /ˈneɪ.səns/ (UK).
What is the plural of nascence?
The plural of nascence is nascences.

Words near nascence in the dictionary

  1. Nascan
  2. Nascans
  3. Nascapee
  4. Nascapi
  5. NASCAR
  6. nascence
  7. nascences
  8. nascencies
  9. nascency
  10. nascent
  11. nascent hydrogen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nascence (page history and authors); nascence (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nascence (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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