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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
incipiency is a noun meaning "beginning to exist or to be apparent". It carries one recorded sense.
beginning to exist or to be apparent
“he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850”
“it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for incipiency come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.