being born

Coming into life

Being born is the act of coming into existence through birth, the moment when a person or animal emerges from the womb and begins life as a separate being.

The phrase emphasizes the passive nature of the experience—no one chooses to be born or has any control over the circumstances.

Being born into wealth doesn't guarantee happiness.

It often appears in philosophical or existential contexts about the human condition.

Related

naming ceremony · new life · doula · neonatal · mother · gestation · vernix · conception · genesis · emergence · crowning · labor · water breaking · nativity · umbilical cord · awakening · fertility rites · midwife

Opposites
life transition endpoints

being borndying

Ceasing to live

death · passing away · perishing · expiring · giving up the ghost

biological process direction

being borndying

Ceasing to live

mortality · decomposition

existential state transition

being bornannihilation

Utter, complete destruction

nonbeing · extinction · oblivion · dissolution

Family

being, born, bear, birth, borne, bore, reborn, rebirth, newborn

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G