Insipient vs. Incipient — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Insipient and Incipient
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Insipient
Foolish; lacking wisdom; stupid
Incipient
Beginning to exist or appear
Detecting incipient tumors.
An incipient personnel problem.
Insipient
Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish.
Incipient
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.
Incipient
(obsolete) A beginner.
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Incipient
(grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language.
Incipient
Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.
Incipient
Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed;
Incipient civil disorder
An incipient tumor
A vague inchoate idea
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