incipience

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

incipience
    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]

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