nascency

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: nas=cen=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

nascency, n. [L. nascentia. See Nascent.].

 State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

nascency

accouchement, babyhood, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth