NASCENCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The event of being born

Example:

they celebrated the birth of their first child

Synonyms:

birth; nascence; nascency; nativity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("nascency" 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 "nascency"):

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)

Derivation:

nascent (being born or beginning)