incipiency

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
incipiency
    n 1: 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:
         {incipiency}, {incipience}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incipience \In*cip"i*ence\, Incipiency \In*cip"i*en*cy\, n. [L.
   incipientia.]
   Beginning; commencement; incipient state.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "incipiency":
      babyhood, beginnings, birth, childhood, cradle, freshman year,
      genesis, inception, inchoation, incipience, incunabula, infancy,
      nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturition,
      pregnancy, youth
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