origination

Noun

Meaning

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

Mode of production, or bringing into being.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

foundation origin creation introduction institution founding innovation inception initiation instauration genesis alpha dawn development making
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Antonyms

izzard death development end close event
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Hypernyms

beginning start commencement

Hyponyms

cause overture rise preliminary procession authorship

Examples

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life. G. E. M. Anscombe

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones. Terry Winograd

The school of art which Hulme started and Pound established.. diction, rhythm and metre were fully emancipated from formal artifice and the poet was free to act creatively under the laws of his own origination. Herbert Read

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

she looked forward to her initiation as an adult Source: Internet

the foundation of a new scientific society Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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