Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Coming into view, existence, or notice: emergent spring shoots; an emergent political leader.
- adj. Emerging: emergent nations.
- adj. Rising above a surrounding medium, especially a fluid.
- adj. Arising or occurring unexpectedly: money laid aside for emergent contingencies.
- adj. Demanding prompt action; urgent.
- adj. Occurring as a consequence; resultant: economic problems emergent from the restriction of credit.
- n. One that is coming into view or existence: "The giant redwoods . . . outstrip the emergents of the rain forest, which rarely reach two hundred feet” ( Catherine Caulfield).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rising from or out of anything that covers or surrounds; coming forth or into view; protruding.
- Specifically— In bryology, rising slightly above the perichætium: applied to the capsule.
- In lichenology, protruding through the cortical layer.
- Issuing or proceeding.
- Coming suddenly; sudden; casual; unexpected; hence, calling for immediate action or remedy; urgent; pressing.
- n. That which emerges or comes forth; that which appears or comes into view; a natural occurrence.
Wiktionary
- adj. emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
- adj. botany taller than the surrounding vegetation
- adj. botany having leaves and flowers above the water
- adj. video games Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- n. botany A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grows up and above the water.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.
- adj. Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action
- adj. coming into existence
Examples
“China's position is best illustrated by an influential foreign policy advisor to Chinese leaders who requested an edit to the forum's communiqué: the phrase "emergent nations led by China" was to be changed to "emergent nations including China".”
The Huffington Post: Nathan Gardels: Eric X. Li's Globalization 2.0
“Purposely ignoring American Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and many evangelicals-about 70 percent of religious Americans-Bloom focuses on the Mormons, the Southern Baptists and other made-in-America sects to tease out what he calls the emergent "American Religion.”
“What it does not recognize is the third case, which we call emergent strategy where a realized pattern was not expressly intended.”
“These people, which he calls emergent consumers, are characterized by their vision and thinking styles.”
“The other wing comes from young people within the Evangelical communities who are questioning and redefining their tradition and is known as "emergent" Christianity.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. Roger Wolsey: Christianity For People Who Don't Like Christianity
“The two beams, in short, emergent from the spar, are polarized, their directions of vibration being at right angles to each other.”
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
“It may turn out that evolution of intelligence involves long-term emergent risks to genetic lines that ultimately kill off intelligence before it gets much beyond where we are at.”
“If he or she is "emergent" - which usually means young, but can also refer to older artists who have only recently signed up with a well-known gallery-the risk is greater, but so is the potential return.”
“Designing and constructing a free living life form doesn't have to involve any (hopelessly) complicating assumptions (or hypotheses) such as "1) Life originated on the Earth, 2) Life is emergent from a specific set of naturally given abiological conditions, 3) We can identify those conditions on Earth, both coincident and causal, with the origin of life and reproduce those conditions in the laboratory and life will emerge.”
“Here's what I assume are the assumptions (LOL) that make it an entertaining subject matter to argue over: 1) Life originated on the Earth, 2) Life is emergent from a specific set of naturally given abiological conditions, 3) We can identify those conditions on Earth, both coincident and causal, with the origin of life and reproduce those conditions in the laboratory and life will emerge.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emergent’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Inspiration
These words function as gateways to new spaces that need to be explored.
summon, unfold, unfurl, circuitous, tangent, analogous, propitious, lingering, stagnate, dynamic, pause, layers and 23 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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My Self-Descriptors: A Mirror of Text
Read this list, and read it well. When you finish, you'll know me better than my mother. That is, unless she reads this list too.
libertarian, unorthodox, unfinished, sincere, frugal, lanky, introspective, critical, laid-back, taciturn, lexiphilic, kindly and 115 more...
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Tamara's Words
ennui, je ne sais quoi, libertine, dilettante, raconteur, awry, nerdy, ridiculousness, cinnamon, snarky, somnambulist, truthiness and 101 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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To verify definition
Words I've looked up to make sure I knew the correct definition.
megrim, noisome, somnolence, parabola, prehensile, slattern, apropos, panacea, teetotal, collegial, prie dieu, inexorably and 14 more...
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Intellectual Ammunition
paradox, sine qua non, paradigm, discourse, ideology, precursor, emergent, imperialist, neo-colonialism, hegemony, unipolar, democratization and 60 more...
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JohnWonderlich's Words
transparency, redundancy, discharge petition, point, twitter, penumbral, resplendent, incalculable, recrimination, trope, iterative, homunculus and 37 more...
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Words I Like
tubular, auspicious, trepidation, fulcrum, travesty, papish, surly, scamper, modulo, emergent, conjure, revelry and 10 more...
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