inception

noun

Etymology: 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 someone to incept an idea.

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.”

   “To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.”

2. A layering, nesting, or recursion of something within itself.

   “Well it's the… Mr. Introspective / I'm a dreamer's dream, a sort of an inception”

   “I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception”