incipiency

Variant of incipient

incipient definition

in·cipi·ent (in sip′ē ənt)

adjective

in the first stage of existence; just beginning to exist or to come to notice an incipient illness

Etymology: L incipiens, prp. of incipere, to begin, lit., take up < in-, in, on + capere, to take: see have

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