emergent
- adjective
- /ɪˈmɜrdʒənt/
- 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.
- Like your previously addicted self was the tyrant over your emergent self.
- It's called emergent minds, the birth of a new species.
- But we also have an inter self that is a part of our our deeply verb like unfolding emergent identity that we can embrace.
Examples
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And out of this rises a new emergent truth.
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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
Likely to become successful or popular soon
Beginning to exist and showing signs of future growth
Beginning to exist or develop
Starting to appear and become important
Beginning to show promise in a job or activity
Becoming more important or successful, often about people
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A theory that new qualities appear during the history of life and cannot be predicted from what came before
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.