English noun: incipiency | |||
| 1. | incipiency (time) beginning to exist or to be apparent | ||
| Samples | He placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850. It is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency. | ||
| Synonyms | incipience | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time | ||