origination

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: o=rig=i=na=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

origination, n. [L. originatio.].

•  The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.  Keill.  [1913 Webster]

  "What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination."  [1913 Webster]
•  Mode of production, or bringing into being.  [1913 Webster]

  "This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars."  [1913 Webster]

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

ROGET THESAURUS

origination

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.