INCIPIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incipience mean? 

• INCIPIENCE (noun)
  The noun INCIPIENCE has 1 sense:

1. beginning to exist or to be apparent

  Familiarity information: INCIPIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCIPIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beginning to exist or to be apparent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

incipience; incipiency

Context example:

it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency

Hypernyms ("incipience" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; offset; outset; showtime; start; starting time (the time at which something is supposed to begin)

Derivation:

incipient (only partly in existence; imperfectly formed)