| Inception 1. (n.) Beginning; commencement; initiation. 2. (n.) Reception; a taking in. Thesaurus Entries babyhood, beginning, beginnings, birth, childhood, commencement, conception, constitution, cradle, derivation, effectuation, establishment, formation, foundation, fountain, freshman year, genesis, grass roots, head, inauguration, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, installation, institution, materialization, nascence, nascency, nativity, organization, origin, original, origination, parturition, pregnancy, provenance, provenience, radical, radix, realization, rise, root, setting-up, source, stem, stock, taproot, well, wellspring, whence, youth |