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Nascency

//ˈneɪsənsi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence. countable, uncountable

    "[W]e are, therefore, sure in advance, of being right, if we say of any perception that first it didn't exist, and that then there was a mere suggestion and nascency of it, which grew more definite, until, at last, the thing itself was fully established."

  2. 2
    the event of being born wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nāscentia. Doublet of nascence.

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