inception

Noun

Meaning

Beginning; commencement; initiation.

Reception; a taking in.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

origin genesis beginning start birth introduction formation launch establishment emergence onset initiation inauguration commencement origination
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Antonyms

omega izzard end period result death
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Hypernyms

beginning

Hyponyms

cause overture rise preliminary procession prelude

Related terms

incipient inceptive incept inceptual

Phrases with the word

very inception inception language inception of pregnancy

Examples

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. Felix Adler

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species. Julian Jaynes

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. Jasper Fforde

When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster. Eric Hoffer

To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises. Harriet Beecher Stowe

There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Walt Whitman

Close letter words and terms

incentivizer incentre incept inception language inception of pregnancy inceptional