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Nascency

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Noun

1. birth, nascence, nascency, nativity

the event of being born

Example Sentences:
'they celebrated the birth of their first child'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Nascency

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adjective
1. 
starting to grow or develop; being born
2. chemistry
(of an element or simple compound, esp hydrogen) created within the reaction medium in the atomic form and having a high activity

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Nascency

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adjective
1. 
coming into being; being born
2. 
beginning to form, start, grow, or develop
said of ideas, cultures, etc.
3.  Chemistry
designating or of the state of an element just released from a compound and having unusual chemical activity because atoms of the element have not combined to form molecules
nascent chlorine

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nascency

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adj.
Coming into existence; emerging: "the moral shock of our nascent imperialism" (Richard Hofstadter).

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