incipience vs kickoff

incipience and kickoff both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
incipience	Yes	No	No	No
kickoff	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kickoff is a hypernym of incipience; that is, kickoff is a word with a broader meaning than incipience:

Other hypernyms of incipience include beginning, commencement, first, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time.

incipience (noun)	kickoff (noun)
beginning to exist or to be apparent	(football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score
	a start given to contestants
	the time at which something is supposed to begin