nascency

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nascency

/ˈneɪsənsi/ UK

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Learned borrowing from Latin nāscentia. Doublet of nascence.

noun nascencies

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

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@misc{nascency_2026,
  title = {nascency},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nascency},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}