emergence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the becoming visible

   not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins

2. 2
   noun

   the gradual beginning or coming forth

   figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece

3. 3
   noun

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

   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

4. 4
   noun

   An emergency.

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

5. 5
   noun

   the act of coming (or going) out

6. 6
   noun

   the act of emerging

7. 7
   noun

   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.

Etymology

Borrowed from French émergence. Doublet of emergency. By surface analysis, emerge + -ence.