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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun origination has 2 senses

• origination(n = noun.event) inception, origin - an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events; Array
is a kind of beginning
has particulars: germination, cause, overture, preliminary, prelude, emanation, procession, rise
Derived forms verb originate₁, verb originate₃

• origination(n = noun.act) creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction - the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"
is a kind of beginning, commencement, start
has particulars: authorship, paternity
Derived forms verb originate₂, verb originate₁

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THESAURUS

origination

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

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Cause

N cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, 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, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

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