The starting points or earliest stages of something; the times when things first started to happen.
From the verb 'begin' which comes from Old English 'beginnan.' The 'be-' prefix is intensifying, and '-ing' creates the gerund form. The plural 'beginnings' became common to describe multiple starting points or phases.
Neuroscience shows our brain encodes beginnings and endings more strongly than middles—we remember the first and last songs at a concert better than middle ones, which is why 'beginnings' feel so important even though they're just transitions.
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