Incipience

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incipience \In*cip"i*ence\, Incipiency \In*cip"i*en*cy\, n. [L.
     incipientia.]
     Beginning; commencement; incipient state.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  incipience
       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:
           {incipiency}]