Emergence

Quick meaning: Emergence is a noun meaning The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.

Meaning

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.

More Meanings

1. (botany) An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising from more than the superficial cells, and from spines in arising from a few layers only.
2. (obsolete) An emergency.

Example Sentences

In this dire emergence, the Marquis de Torcy, minister for foreign affairs, offered his services.

Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then

I[…]had recourse to an English Merchant, Mr Gregory, long settled at Dunkirk, to whom, happily, I had been recommended, as to a person capable, in any emergence, to afford me assistance.

Word Forms

• emergences

Synonyms for emergence

Depending on context, synonyms include issue, egress, growth, outgrowth, emersion, egression.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include growth, egression, egress, issue, emersion, outgrowth.

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