| Main Entry: | inception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
Synonyms: |
birth, commencement, dawn, derivation, fountain, inauguration, initiation, kickoff, origin, outset, provenance, provenience, rise, root, source, start, well, wellspring |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
Synonyms: |
alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
Antonyms: |
completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, birth |
Synonyms: |
fertilization, formation, germination, impregnation, inception, initiation, insemination, invention, launching, origin, outset, start |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
Antonyms: |
abortion, death |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
Synonyms: |
conception, constitution, establishment, formation, formulation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, laying down, making, nascency, nativity, origination, procreation, production, setting up, siring |
Antonyms: |
destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | dawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a beginning |
Synonyms: |
advent, alpha, birth, commencement, dawning, emergence, foundation, genesis, head, inception, onset, opening, origin, outset, outstart, rise, source, start, unfolding |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | derivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | root, source |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, basis, beginning, descent, etymology, foundation, genealogy, inception, origin, provenance, provenience, spin-off, well, wellspring, whence it came |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, consequence, effect, end, outgrowth, result |
| Main Entry: | entrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into a place; introduction |
Synonyms: |
access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, appearance, approach, arrival, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enlistment, enrollment, entry, entrée, immigration, import, importation, inception, incoming, ingoing, ingress, ingression, initiation, invasion, outset, passage, penetration, progress, start, trespass |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, departure, exit, leave |
| Main Entry: | fountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | source, often of liquid |
Synonyms: |
bubbler, cause, font, fount, geyser, gush, inception, inspiration, jet, lode, mainspring, mine, origin, play, provenance, provenience, pump, reservoir, root, spout, spray, spring, stream, well, wellhead, wellspring |
| Main Entry: | genesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, creation |
Synonyms: |
alpha, birth, commencement, dawn, dawning, engendering, formation, generation, inception, opening, origin, outset, propagation, provenance, provenience, root, source, start |
Antonyms: |
conclusion, end, finale, finish |
| Main Entry: | germ |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
Synonyms: |
bud, cause, egg, embryo, inception, nucleus, origin, ovule, ovum, root, rudiment, seed, source, spark, spore, sprig, sprout |