incubation.
Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
Meaning & usage
Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
The development of a disease from its causes, or the period of such development.
A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
One of the four proposed stages of creativity (preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification): the unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at a later point.
Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams or to receive healing.
Where this word comes from
From Latin incubātiō, from incubō (“to lie on”).
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