'Incipience' definitions:
Definition of 'incipience'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
Definition of 'Incipience'
From: GCIDE
- Incipience \In*cip"i*ence\, Incipiency \In*cip"i*en*cy\, n. [L. incipientia.] Beginning; commencement; incipient state. [1913 Webster]