Contextualizebeta

natality

noun

Etymology

From natal + -ity, perhaps after mortality. Compare French natalité (“birthrate”) and Middle English natalyte (“birth”). Philosophical usage introduced by Hannah Arendt.

  1. derived from *ǵenh₁-✻
  2. derived from nātālis
  3. inherited from natal,natale — “native, one’s own; inherited; presiding over birthdays or births”
  4. suffixed as natality — “natal + ity”

Definitions

  1. The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for natality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA