Natality vs Nascency - What's the difference?
natality | nascency |
(demography) The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
(philosophy) The human ability to create new ideas, institutions and frameworks out of nothing.
A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.
* 1889 , , "The Psychological Theory of Extension," Mind , vol. 14, no. 53, p. 108:
As nouns the difference between natality and nascency
is that natality is (demography) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year while nascency is a state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.natality
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(natalities)Synonyms
* birthrateCoordinate terms
* fertility rate * replacement ratenascency
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(nascencies)- [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.
