incipience

Borrowed from Latin incipientia.

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incipience (countable and uncountable, plural incipiences)

1. A beginning, or first stage.

• incipient

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “incipience”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.