incipience

Other forms: incipiences

Definitions of incipience
  1. noun
    beginning to exist or to be apparent
    “he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850”
    synonyms: incipiency
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    type of:
    beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time
    the time at which something is supposed to begin
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