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emergent

emergent

5 6.4
Starting to appear or become important
  • adjective
  • /ɪˈmɜrdʒənt/
translation icon : emergente
  • Through the adequate development of early literacy skills at the emergent level, children became reading ready upon entering kindergarten.
  • emergent literacy
  • emergent development
  • emergent literacy skills

Like your previously addicted self was the tyrant over your emergent self.

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Examples

  • And out of this rises a new emergent truth.

  • Many motels survived because their function changed in a newly emergent urban social environment.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Other activities took form from the initiative of an emergent international student movement.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Because shared stories, by nature, are interactive, they become an excellent platform for teaching emergent literacy skills.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Significantly, these emergent views, just now establishing themselves in classroom culture, are here to stay.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In the first round of data analysis, I coded emergent themes from the interviews.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Interventions that aim to support the development of emergent and conventional literacy must be multifaceted.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Furthermore, age-appropriate, culturally responsive fictional texts were not easily available at emergent reading levels.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Unique case narratives were compiled according to the emergent themes of each participant and triad.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The city is experiencing an emergent tech industry that is attracting new startups.

Synonyms

up-and-coming
vsemergent
30 4.0

Likely to become successful or popular soon

speaks to the process of coming into being not to prediction of fame
nascent
vsemergent
  • Formal
16 8.1

Beginning to exist and showing signs of future growth

focuses more on becoming important rather than mere existence
incipient
vsemergent
7 8.1

Beginning to exist or develop

highlights growth toward importance rather than initial stage
emerging
vsemergent
3 4.1

Starting to appear and become important

is the adjective form used to describe that ongoing process
budding
vsemergent
3 4.1

Beginning to show promise in a job or activity

is broader and covers general coming into being or importance
rising
vsemergent
3.7

Becoming more important or successful, often about people

describes coming into being rather than advancement in status

Antonyms

355 3.6

Not related to the subject people are discussing or to the main point

46 4.8

Not moving or changing and showing little activity

Compounds

9.9

A theory that new qualities appear during the history of life and cannot be predicted from what came before

How Developed

prominent
353 3.9
emergent
5 6.4
nascent
  • Formal
16 8.1
incipient
7 8.1

Surface Forms

emergent positive

Morphology

emergent = emerge (transparent) = e + merg + ent

The word 'emergent' is clearly derived from 'emerge' with the addition of the suffix '-ent' to form an adjective.

Etymology

Emergent comes from the Latin word emergere, where e- means 'out' and mergere means 'to sink', so the original idea is 'to rise out'. Think of a new trend or company 'rising out' of what existed before, so emergent means beginning to appear or become important.