Incipience

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition of being incipient; beginning; commencement.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Beginning; commencement; incipient state.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A beginning, or first stage
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. beginning to exist or to be apparent
  • Word Usage
    "The original score, all a-throb with scary incipience, was composed by David Wingo."
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