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nascent adjective [ ˈnas(ə)nt ]

• (especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
• "the nascent space industry"
Similar: just beginning, budding, developing, growing, embryonic, incipient, young, in its infancy, fledgling, evolving, emergent, emerging, rising, dawning, advancing, burgeoning, naissant,
Origin: early 17th century: from Latin nascent- ‘being born’, from the verb nasci .


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