[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

nativity \nativ"ity\, n.; pl. nativies. f. nativit'e, l.
   nativitas. see native, and cf. na"ivet'e.
   1. the coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the
      circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner,
      etc. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            i have served him from the hour of my nativity.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            thou hast left . . . the land of thy nativity.
                                                  --ruth ii. 11.
      1913 webster

            these in their dark nativity the deep
            shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. fine arts capitalized a picture representing or
      symbolizing the early infancy of christ. the simplest form
      is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and
      an ass to express the stable in which he was born.
      1913 webster

   3. astrol. a representation of the positions of the
      heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to
      indicate one's future destinies; a horoscope.
      1913 webster

   the nativity, the birth or birthday of christ; christmas
      day.

   to cast one's nativity or to calculate one's nativity
      astrol., to find out and represent the position of the
      heavenly bodies at the time of one's birth.
      1913 webster
see also:
nativies native na"ivet'e the nativity to cast one's nativity to calculate one's nativity 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

nativity
     n 1: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their
          first child" syn: birth, nascency, nascence
          ant: death
     2: the theological doctrine that jesus christ had no human
        father; christians believe that jesus's birth fulfilled
        old testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the
        nativity is celebrated at christmas syn: virgin birth
see also:
birth nascency nascence death virgin birth 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "nativity":
   aboriginality, accouchement, aspect, astrodiagnosis, astrology,
   astromancy, autochthonousness, babyhood, beginnings, birth,
   birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed,
   childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery,
   freshman year, genesis, genethliac astrology, genethliacism,
   genethliacs, genethlialogy, giving birth, hatching, having a baby,
   horoscope, horoscopy, house, inception, inchoation, incipience,
   incipiency, incunabula, indigenousness, infancy, labor, mansion,
   multiparity, mundane astrology, mundane house, nascence, nascency,
   nationality, native-bornness, nativeness, nativism,
   natural astrology, origin, origination, parturition,
   planetary house, pregnancy, stargazing, the nativity, the stork,
   travail, youth, zodiac

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