inception

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “For a few moments they spoke of the opera, of the topics that were then occupying the attention of Paris, of the pleasure of renewing their brief acquaintance which had had its inception under such odd circumstances, and this brought them to the subject that was uppermost in the minds of both.”

   “My mother, at my inception, did not create that passionate lack of fear that is mine.”

   “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, […]”

2. (countable, uncountable)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 inception”

   “I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception”

   “With the recent uptake of mixed-reality (MR) technology, this frame can be redefined, allowing for virtual simulations to exist within the physical frame, effectively delivering an inception of physical and simulated interfaces.”

   “Tonight we've just had a lengthy discussion about the likelihood of dreams being a portal to some external, alternate reality. All signs point to yes. They could be. Inceptions of inceptions and so forth.”

   “He was sketching me as I doodled in my own book, almost like an inception.”