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Womb vs Unbirth - What's the difference?

womb | unbirth |

As nouns the difference between womb and unbirth

is that womb is in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus while unbirth is the absence of birth; failure to be born.

As a verb womb

is to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

womb

English

(uterus)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
  • (obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
  • *:
  • *:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.
  • (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
  • *1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:
  • *:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.
  • (figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
  • *Dryden
  • *:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
  • Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
  • *Robert Browning
  • *:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .

    • Synonyms

    * (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
    • (Shakespeare)

    unbirth

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The absence of birth; failure to be born.
  • * 1971 , Stanley Eveling, Come and be killed; and, Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr Kooning
    • So, you're like somebody grieving over the unbirth of a gnat when there's thousands, getting burned and blasted and... all sorts of things are happening to them...
  • * 1993 , Frank Northen Magill, Magill's Literary Annual, 1993
    • His death is a kind of unbirth , and the imagery that surrounds it is physical and sexual.
  • * 2008 , James Walters, Alternative worlds in Hollywood cinema: resonance between realms
    • George's wish of unbirth thus joins a whole series that are never realized.
  • A paraphilia in which the individual desires to be drawn back through the vagina into the womb.
  • * 2001 , "Hyndis Kogler", FUR:UB #10(last page, overstuffed belly)'' (on Internet newsgroup ''fur.artwork.erotica )
    • Maybe a bunch of bi incest, [summoning a] muscular, two-cocked demon of some sort, unbirth , and then another demon shows up and mounts the second demon with the female drow in hir belly, and also takes the drow in the same stroke inside her.
  • * 2005 , "Lord Flame Stryke", Re: Curious'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.dragons )
    • Me, I like vore and unbirth . But then, I'm strange