ascension

See also: Ascension, ascensión, and Ascensión

English

Etymology

From Middle English ascencioun, from Old French ascension, from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem (“ascent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛnʃən/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

ascension (countable and uncountable, plural ascensions)

1. The act of ascending; an ascent.

   The ascension of the hot-air balloon gave us a better view.

2. A transcendence of the material world; a transition to a higher form, state, or plane of existence.
   • 2019 January 7, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers”, in The Exploring Series‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 January 2023, retrieved 11 January 2023, 6:12 from the start:

     It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part.

3. That which rises, as from distillation.
   • 1683, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture” in Certain Miscellany Tracts

     vaporous ascensions from the stomach

Derived terms

• right ascension

Related terms

• ascend
• descension

Translations

the act of ascending

• Asturian: ascensión f
• Bashkir: күтәрелеү (kütärelew), ҡалҡыу (qalqıw)
• Bulgarian: издигане (bg) (izdigane), изкачване (bg) (izkačvane), възход (bg) (vǎzhod)
• Catalan: ascensió (ca) f
• Chinese： Mandarin: 上升 (zh) (Shàngshēng),提升 (zh) (Tíshēng)
• Czech: stoupání, vzestup (cs)
• Dutch: hemelvaart (nl)
• Finnish: nouseminen (fi), nousu (fi)
• French: ascension (fr) f
• Galician: ascensión f
• Georgian: ამაღლება (amaɣleba), ასვლა (asvla), აღმასვლა (aɣmasvla)
• German: Aufstieg (de) m, Aufsteigen n
• Greek: ανάβαση (el) f (anávasi)
• Hungarian: felszállás (hu), felemelkedés (hu)
• Italian: ascensione (it) f
• Maori: kakenga
• Persian: برایش‎ (fa) (barāyeš), طلوع‎ (fa) (tolu')
• Portuguese: ascensão (pt) f
• Russian: подъём (ru) m (podʺjóm)
• Spanish: ascensión (es) f
• Welsh: esgyniad m

See also

• accession

Anagrams

• canonises, sonancies

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French

Etymology

From Old French ascension, borrowed from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

ascension f (plural ascensions)

1. ascent
2. ascension

Further reading

• “ascension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem.

Noun

ascension f (oblique plural ascensions, nominative singular ascension, nominative plural ascensions)

1. ascent

Antonyms

• descension

Descendants

• → Middle English: ascencioun
  • English: ascension
• French: ascension
• Norman: ascension