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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pregnancy \Preg"nan*cy\, noun
1. The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
2. Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc.; unusual consequence or capacity; fertility. --Fuller.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pregnancy
noun: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus [syn: {gestation}, {maternity}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "pregnancy": abundance, appropriateness, auspiciousness, babyhood, beginnings, bigness, birth, bountifulness, brooding, chargedness, childhood, convenience, copiousness, covering, cradle, criticality, crucialness, expedience, expressiveness, exuberance, favorableness, fecundity, felicitousness, fertility, fitness, fittingness, freshman year, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, generousness, genesis, gestation, gravidity, gravidness, greatness, heaviness, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incubation, incunabula, infancy, intelligibility, interpretability, loadedness, lushness, luxuriance, meaningfulness, meatiness, meetness, nascence, nascency, nativity, opportuneness, origin, origination, parturition, pithiness, plenteousness, plentifulness, procreativeness, productive capacity, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, propitiousness, propriety, readability, richness, rightness, ripeness, seasonableness, sententiousness, significance, significancy, significantness, sitting, situation, suggestiveness, suitability, superabundance, swarmingness, teeming womb, teemingness, the family way, timeliness, youth
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