incipience

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin incipientia. === Pronunciation === === Noun === incipience (countable and uncountable, plural incipiences) A beginning, or first stage. ==== Related terms ==== incipient ==== Translations ==== === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “incipience”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.