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nascently

nascently adverb: in a nascent manner; emergingly.

Adverb

nascently (not comparable)

  1. In a nascent manner; emergingly.
    • Greater sexual response to female stimuli among andro/gynephilic women could be indicative that these women are, instead, nascently bisexual or lesbian and we are witnessing their sexuality in an early stage of development, at the dawn of these women’s same-gender sexual careers.2015 December 3, “Straight but Not Narrow; Within-Gender Variation in the Gender-Specificity of Women’s Sexual Response”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of nascently

From nascent + -ly.

Questions about nascently

What does nascently mean?
Nascently means in a nascent manner; emergingly.
What part of speech is nascently?
Nascently is an adverb.

Words near nascently in the dictionary

  1. nascency
  2. nascent
  3. nascent hydrogen
  4. nascent protein
  5. nascent proteins
  6. nascently
  7. nascentness
  8. Nascimento
  9. Nascimentos
  10. nasciturus rule
  11. NASD

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