nascency
IPA: nˈeɪsʌnsi
noun
- A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.
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Examples of "nascency" in Sentences
- Also, part of the gloaming is the relative nascency of the EU itself.
- Only a fraction are expected to be mobile sales because of the nascency of the business.
- The wildly divergent numbers demonstrate the nascency of the market for online video measurement.
- "The media conflict is the symbol of Islam's nascency in the modern world...this battle is going to continue until they find themselves powerless under our dominion," he wrote.
- Indeed, unlike job-growth boomtowns like Columbia University-dominated Morningside Heights in Manhattan and small-town-within-a-big-city Forest Hills in Queens, downtown Brooklyn can be considered still in the nascency of any upward swing toward 24-7 life.
- Mizzy may be physically shameless, "no, more like shame-free, satyrlike, so unembarrassed by nakedness or by biological functions that he makes almost everyone else seem like a Victorian aunt"; but there is already something very nearly Victorian in Peter's immediate reflex of idealizing Mizzy's beauty--his highfalutin talk of his "pristine nascency" and "slumbering perfection" and supposed resemblance to "a bas-relief on the sarcophagus of a medieval soldier."
- Mizzy may be physically shameless, "no, more like shame-free, satyrlike, so unembarrassed by nakedness or by biological functions that he makes almost everyone else seem like a Victorian aunt"; but there is already something very nearly Victorian in Peter's immediate reflex of idealizing Mizzy's beauty -- his highfalutin talk of his "pristine nascency" and "slumbering perfection" and supposed resemblance to "a bas-relief on the sarcophagus of a medieval soldier."
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