Incipiency

3 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]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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