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Natality

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See birthrate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.

n. The human ability to create new ideas, institutions and frameworks out of nothing.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Birth.

n. The ratio of the number of births in a given time, as a year, to the total number of population; birth-rate.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

Word Usage

"Cocooned in the protection of our natality, we are safeguarded for a nanosecond from the intensely complex lives that fan out ahead of us, still untainted by the division and conflict that seems to define the architectural mindscape of our current world."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rate

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

fertility rate birthrate