incipient \in-SIP-ee-uhnt\, adjective:
Beginning to exist or appear.
Some examples:
Improved diagnostic techniques can alert individuals to incipient illnesses.
Shiv gradually became aware that he was onto something big, bigger than anything he had ever done before. He was nudged by an incipient awareness that perhaps it was even too big for him.
George devoted much of his energies to worrying about money and was preoccupied by thoughts of his incipient pauperdom.
Incipient is derived from Latin incipere, "to undertake, to begin" (literally "to take in"), from in-, "in" + capere, "to take." It is related to inception, "beginning, commencement."
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