natality
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of natality
Example Sentences
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Against that drive to mastery, she set what she called natality: the capacity, given with every birth, to begin something unforeseen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Later he was branch chief of natality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2020
James, it’s concerned with questions of natality and futurity, the miracle that new life represents in an ever more frightening and unjust world.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2018
"To come back to the population it was before 2002, based on their natality rates, it could take nearly a century to recover," Wrege said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2016
Slowly tallying mortality and natality figures, Dobyns continued to be impressed by what he found.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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