Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun incipiency

1 sense of incipiency

Sense 1
incipiency, incipience -- (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")
       => beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset -- (the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her")

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