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Nativity vs Nascence - What's the difference?

nativity | nascence |

As nouns the difference between nativity and nascence

is that nativity is (christianity) the birth of jesus as described in the gospels of matthew and luke while nascence is birth.

nativity

English

Noun

(nativities)
  • (also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
  • (Christianity) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus; Christmas Day.
  • (astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 313:
    • Accordingly […] he was careful, as befitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, to note the exact nativity of his subjects whenever it could be discovered; in this way he hoped to make possible a scientific comparison of the course of human life with the astrological circumstances of its inception, and ths to arrive at a more exact astrology.

    Derived terms

    * nativity play * Nativity Scene

    Related terms

    * natal * natality * native

    See also

    * calvary

    nascence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • birth
  • coming into being
  • commencement or inception