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INCIPIENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incipiency mean?
• INCIPIENCY (noun)
The noun INCIPIENCY has 1 sense:
1. beginning to exist or to be apparent
Familiarity information: INCIPIENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("incipiency" 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)
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