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origination
noun
1 origination
An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events.
synonyms: inception, origin.
Roget 153:
cause,
origin,
source,
principle,
element;
occasioner†,
prime mover,
primum mobile [Lat.];
vera causa [Lat.];
author
etc.
(producer)
164;
mainspring;
agent;
leaven;
groundwork,
foundation
etc.
(support)
215.
spring,
fountain,
well,
font;
fountainhead,
spring head,
wellhead;
fons et origo [Lat.],
genesis;
descent
etc.
(paternity)
166;
remote cause;
influence.
pivot,
hinge,
turning point,
lever,
crux,
fulcrum;
key;
proximate cause,
causa causans [Lat.];
straw that breaks the camel's back.
ground;
reason,
reason why;
why and wherefore,
rationale,
occasion,
derivation;
final cause
etc.
(intention)
620;
les dessous des cartes [Fr.];
undercurrents.
rudiment.
egg,
germ,
embryo,
bud,
root,
radix radical,
etymon,
nucleus,
seed,
stem,
stock,
stirps,
trunk,
tap-root,
gemmule†,
radicle,
semen,
sperm.
nest,
cradle,
nursery,
womb,
nidus,
birthplace,
hotbed.
causality,
causation;
origination;
production
etc.
161.
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Dutch: begin, aanvang, geboorte, genese, ontstaan, wording, wordingsproces
2 origination
The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.
synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction.
Dutch: inleiding, creatie, formatie, grondvesting, introductie, stichting, vorming
Polish: inicjacja
Moby thesaurus: A, alpha, artifact, authorship, babyhood, beginning, beginnings, birth, blast-off, brainchild, child, childhood, coinage, commencement, composition, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, cradle, creation, creative effort, creature, crowning achievement, cutting edge, dawn, derivation, devising, distillation, edge, effect, end product, essence, establishment, extract, fabrication, flying start, foundation, fresh start, freshman year, fruit, generation, genesis, grass roots, handiwork, hatching, head, improvisation, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, institution, invention, issue, jump-off, kick-off, leading edge, making do, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, mintage, nascence, nascency, nativity, new departure, new mintage, offspring, oncoming, onset, opening, opera, opus, opuscule, origin, original, outbreak, outcome, outgrowth, outset, parturition, pregnancy, product, production, provenience, radical, radix, result, rise, root, running start, send-off, setting in motion, setting-up, source, square one, start, start-off, starting point, stem, stock, take-off, taproot, work, youth ... show more.
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