Incipient means beginning to exist or to appear: “My plans to make a film is still in its incipient stages because of shortage of money.”
Insipient, on the other hand, means lack of wisdom; foolishness: “The insipient decision of the surgeon to operate upon the patient proved fatal for the latter.”
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