incipiency n : beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency" [syn: incipience]

English

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈsɪpɪənsi/

Noun

1. A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.

babyhood, beginnings, birth, childhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, inception, inchoation, incipience, incunabula, infancy, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, youth