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Nascency
Nas′cen-cy
(năs′sen-sy̆)
, Noun.
[L.
nascentia
. See Nascent
.] State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.
Nascent
passions and anxieties. Berkley.
2.
(Chem.)
Evolving; being evolved or produced;
as, nascent
. oxygen
Nascent state
(Chem.)
, the fleeting or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound, and not yet united with another, – a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly active chemical properties;
as, hydrogen in the
.nascent state
is a strong reducerDefinition 2024
nascency
nascency
English
Noun
nascency (plural nascencies)
- A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.
- 1889, William James and James Ward, "The Psychological Theory of Extension," Mind, vol. 14, no. 53, p. 108:
- [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.
- 1889, William James and James Ward, "The Psychological Theory of Extension," Mind, vol. 14, no. 53, p. 108: