The word incipient is a term that is used when you want to realize that something is starting, that is, it is found taking its first stepsTherefore, it does not turn out to be something completely established or official, depending on the case in question and by case it is under development.
That which is in the beginning stage
Meanwhile, the concept can reach individuals (“the relationship between my cousin and Maria is incipient"), To situations, such as being a disease ("the sister's myopia is incipient, although it should be controlled so that it does not progress further”), Among other alternatives.
Then, from the aforementioned it follows that incipient is a term that we usually use in ordinary language when we want to refer that something is just beginning, that is, it is still new, and it may even happen that it is in a time of experimentation if it is that just appeared or happened.
The new requires waiting to determine its success or failure
In this sense it is that many times it is impossible to draw conclusions about its consequences given that when it is just developing it is necessary to wait for a reasonable time to pass to issue some type of opinion on its success or failure, for example.
Let's think about a business that is just starting up, it will be essential to wait a certain time to be able to evaluate through sales and costs if it was finally viable and if it is worth continuing with it or directly if it did not work to derail it.
And the same can be transferred to other contexts or areas ...
So, for example, when a drug, vaccine or treatment begins to take its first steps, or it was administered to few people, to evaluate its successful result or not, we will talk about a drug, a vaccine that is in a situation incipient, just beginning and it will be necessary to wait a while to be able to determine if it is effective and manages to combat the disease or, failing that, it is not and then it is necessary to continue trying other options.
Diseases or conditions also have an incipient moment, that is, a time in which they begin and which is characterized by the manifestation of typical symptoms of the same, for example in the flu, you begin to experience muscle pain, headaches, cough, cold, among others.
And it is in this incipient stage that it is recommended to act to be able to attack the symptoms and of course advance in the cure of it.
On the other hand, sentimental relationships between people, whenever they begin, are located in what we call the incipient stage of love and which is characterized by mutual infatuation that is usually expressed through gestures and words of constant love between lovers.
At this stage there is no room for reproaches, the defects in the other are not detected even if they have them, the present infatuation is such that it does not appreciate any type of problem.
We can also speak of the beginning or beginning of countless other things or situations, the beginning of a competition, a problem, a medical treatment, a political position, the beginning of school classes, the birth of love in someone and of its opposite as is hatred, among countless issues that can arise.
It should be noted that the concept of incipient is closely linked with other concepts that refer more or less the same and therefore are normally used as synonyms, reciprocally, such as: embryonic, beginner, first-time, nascent, initial, new, and rudimentary and opposes words like finish.