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INCIPIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beginning to exist or to be apparent
Example:
it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency
Synonyms:
incipience; incipiency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("incipience" is a kind of...):
beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; offset; outset; showtime; start; starting time (the time at which something is supposed to begin)
Derivation:
incipient (only partly in existence; imperfectly formed)
