# ascension
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈsɛnʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

ascension (countable and uncountable, plural ascensions)
* The act of ascending; an ascent.
    The ascension of the hot-air balloon gave us a better view.
* 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” (6:12 from the start), in The Exploring Series‎, archived from the original on 11 January 2023: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.
* 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
* (incel slang) The act or process of ceasing to be an incel, generally by losing one's virginity/having sex, or entering a romantic relationship.
** 2023, Ruxandra Mihaela Gheorghe, David Yuzva Clement, “'It's time to put the copes down and get to work’: a qualitative study of incel exit strategies on r/IncelExit”, in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, number 1:In contrast to red pilled ascension thinking, our sample on r/IncelExit urged users to exit inceldom by engaging those strategies for the sake of personal wellbeing and new social capital.
** 2024, anonymous, quoted in Václav Báča, "Hierarchy at the Bottom of the Hierarchy: Involuntary Celibates, Identity, and Race", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 45:
    “When I see how popular white guys are, I almost start to believe ascension is possible. But then I remember all of my other defects. Like the fact that I'm middle-aged”.
** 2024, S. Verhoef, "Defining female involuntary celibacy: a data-driven study on/r/trufemcels", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, page 43:
    Furthermore, the concept of "ascension" highlights incels' fixation on intimate relationships as the ultimate source of social fulfillment.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ascension.

#### Derived terms

* ascensional
* ascensionist
* oblique ascension
* reascension
* right ascension

#### Related terms

* ascend
* descension

#### Translations
### See also

* accession

### Anagrams

* canonises, sonancies

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French ascension, borrowed from Latin ascēnsiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ascension f (plural ascensions)
* ascent
* ascension

### Further reading

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

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem.

### Noun

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

#### Antonyms

* descension

#### Descendants

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