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inception

/ɪnˈsɛpʃən/ noun

In Latin: inceptiō Wiktionary

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  1. 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.
  2. A layering, nesting, or recursion of something within itself. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

Origin

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.

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