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Incipient vs Original - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between incipient and original

is that incipient is in an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence while original is relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

As nouns the difference between incipient and original

is that incipient is beginner while original is an object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

incipient

English

Adjective

(-)
  • In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
  • After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.
    Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.

    Synonyms

    * (beginning) beginning, commencing, emerging, starting, inchoate, nascent

    Noun

  • (countable, obsolete) beginner
  • (uncountable, grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.
  • Synonyms

    * (beginner) beginner, inceptor

    original

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • (label) Newly created.
  • (label) Fresh, different.
  • (label) Pioneering.
  • (label) Having as its origin.
  • Synonyms

    * (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * derivative * reproduction * simile

    Derived terms

    * originally * original sin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
  • This manuscript is the original
  • A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
  • You’re an original
  • (archaic) An eccentric
  • Synonyms

    * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * remake * reproduction

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