different between ascent vs ascendance

English

Etymology

Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: assent
• Hyphenation: as?cent

Noun

ascent (countable and uncountable, plural ascents)

1. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.

   He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.

2. The way or means by which one ascends.

   There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.

3. An eminence, hill, or high place.
4. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.

   The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.

5. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
6. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

Translations

Anagrams

• casten, enacts, scante, secant, stance

English

Alternative forms

• ascendence

Noun

ascendance (countable and uncountable, plural ascendances)

1. Ascendancy; superiority.

Related terms

Anagrams

• adnascence

French

Etymology

ascendant +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.s??.d??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ascendance f (plural ascendances)

1. (astronomy) ascent
2. (family) ancestry

Antonyms

• descendance

Related terms

• ascendant

Further reading

• “ascendance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).