Nascent

[Nas·cent]

Nascent describes the birth or beginning of something, for example a civilization, a trend, an idea, or an action. It can also imply a future promise, like the nascent government of a new country.

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Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

Adjective S.
coming into existence; "a nascent republic"


a.
Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

a.
Evolving; being evolved or produced.


Nascent

Nas"cent , a. [L. nascens, -entis, p.pr. nasci to be born. See Nation, and cf. Naissant.] 1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
Nascent passions and anxieties.
2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced. Nascent state (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent state is a strong reducer.

Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

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Usage Examples

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

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Other Usage Examples

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

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