origins
Where things begin
Origins are the points from which things begin or arise—the sources, roots, or starting circumstances of something's existence.
A disease may have origins in contaminated water.
A person's origins are their ancestry, birthplace, or early background: She never forgot her humble origins.
The word nearly always appears in plural form; the singular origin works for a single source, while origins suggests multiple contributing factors or a broader sense of background and heritage.
Founding moment
- commencementAct of starting
- outsetInitial point of something
- dawnDay's first glow
- genesisPoint of creation
emergence · onset · advent · foundation · initiation · introduction · launch · inauguration
Original source of something
- wellspringPrimary source of something
- provenanceRecord of ownership
- rootUnderground absorbing structure
- basisUnderlying support or principle
cause · groundwork · influence · precursor · antecedent · prototype · archetype · seed
Loud explosive noise
- cosmologyStudy of universal structure
- primordialExisting from the start
- singularityPoint where values explode
- universeComplete system or domain
formation · cosmogony · creation myth · Dreamtime · ex nihilo · void · chaos · cosmic
inception
Founding moment
- commencementAct of starting
- outsetInitial point of something
- dawnDay's first glow
genesis · emergence · onset · advent · foundation · initiation · introduction · launch · inauguration · debut
fountainhead
Original source of something
- wellspringPrimary source of something
- provenanceRecord of ownership
- rootUnderground absorbing structure
basis · cause · groundwork · influence · precursor · antecedent · prototype · archetype · seed · cradle
big bang
Loud explosive noise
- cosmologyStudy of universal structure
- primordialExisting from the start
- singularityPoint where values explode
universe · formation · cosmogony · creation myth · Dreamtime · ex nihilo · void · chaos · cosmic · astrophysics
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
pedigree · forebears · ancestors · progenitors · descent · forefathers · ethnicity · kinship · clan · tribe
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- back-storieschildhood trauma, family history, past events, formative years, tragic past
- creationismcreation, creator, young earth, creation science, creation story
- Nietzschewill to power, overman, superman, slave morality, Zarathustra
- flight schedulesarrival times, flight numbers, timetables, flight schedules, direct flights
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
originsends
Termini or concludes
endings · conclusions · finales · terminations · culminations
originsdestinations
Places one travels to
endpoints · terminus · termini · arrivals · finish lines
originsoutcomes
Final results achieved
results · consequences · effects · products · end products
- point of originWhere something starts
- origin storyAccount of how something began
- ethnic originsAncestral cultural background
- origin storiesNarratives explaining initial creation
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
- country of originNation something came from
original, origin, originality, originate, unoriginal, originally, originated, originating, aboriginal