inception
Syllables: in·cep·tion/ɪnˈsɛpʃən/
inception noun: the creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
Noun
inception (countable and uncountable, plural inceptions)
- The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
- From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.
- 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.1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XLV, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company...
- A layering, nesting, or recursion of something within itself.
- Well it's the… Mr. Introspective / I'm a dreamer's dream, a sort of an inception2015, “Caged Bird”, in Revenge of the Dreamers II, performed by J. Cole ft. Omen
- I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception2017, “Reflection”, performed by Scarlet Pleasure
inception meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
inception in Hindi
- inception, beginning
- अनुष्ठान anuṣṭhān
- inception
- आरंभ ārambh
inception in Tamil
- the creation or beginning of something
- துவக்கம் tuvakkam
inception in Urdu
- آغاز, ابتدا, شروع
inception in Bengali
- আরম্ভ, শুরু, প্রারম্ভ, সূচনা
More languagesFewer languages
- inception in Malayalam
- തുടക്കം, ആരംഭം, പ്രാരംഭം, സമാരംഭം
- inception in Kannada
- ಆರಂಭ, ಉಪಕ್ರಮ, ಕರ್ತವ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಡಗುವುದು, ತೊಡಗುಹ
- inception in Arabic
- اِسْتِهْلَال istihlāl
Examples of inception in a sentence
- My mother, at my inception, did not create that passionate lack of fear that is mine.1915, Jack London, chapter 18, in The Star Rover:
- Utilizing a case register in Salford, England, Stein and Susser have studied inceptions of psychiatric illness […] Inceptions, defined as first episode of psychiatric care in a person's life, […]1979 May, The Interagency Committee on New Therapies for Pain and Discomfort Report to the White House, Department of Health […] , page 128:
- Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
- He was sketching me as I doodled in my own book, almost like an inception.2020, Farra A., What's Fate Got to Do With It?:
Forms of inception
| plural | inceptions |
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Origin of inception
Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin inceptiō, from inceptus, perfect passive participle of incipiō (“to begin”). The layering sense derives from the 2010 science fiction film Inception, in which a team of people infiltrate someone’s subconscious mind, proceeding through several layers of dreams with the goal of causing the target to incept an idea.
Words formed from inception
Words that rhyme with inception
Questions about inception
- What does inception mean?
- Inception means the creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
- What is inception in Hindi?
- Inception in Hindi is अनुष्ठान (anuṣṭhān), आरंभ (ārambh). See Inception meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use inception in a sentence?
- My mother, at my inception, did not create that passionate lack of fear that is mine.
- What part of speech is inception?
- Inception is a noun.
- How do you pronounce inception?
- Inception is pronounced /ɪnˈsɛpʃən/.
- What is the plural of inception?
- The plural of inception is inceptions.
Words near inception in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inception (page history and authors); अनुष्ठान (Hindi) (page history and authors); inception (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Inception (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inception (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inception (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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