Nascently

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a nascent manner; emergingly. not-comparable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From nascent + -ly.

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