unfoldment
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7.2
- noun
- /ʌnˈfoʊldmənt/
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despliegue
- The documentary beautifully captures the unfoldment of the natural world as seasons change.
- the natural unfoldment
And so in the midst of that, I think there's a beautiful unfoldment occurring.
- And so in the midst of that, I think there's a beautiful unfoldment occurring.
- Like sometimes the truth of a story isn't in the specific factual unfoldment of it.
- I mean, in truth, it's just it's a constant process of becoming an unfoldment that gets occasional punctuation marks that people can point to.
Examples
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The artist's new painting shows the gradual unfoldment of her emotions through vibrant colors.
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"I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment...."
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We don't live in a universe that works in opposition to our unfoldment, but really it's for us.
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And so in the midst of that, I think there's a beautiful unfoldment occurring.
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In particular, the mathematics of quantum theory suggest that the basic movement of matter is to be understood as a process of unfoldment and enfoldment.
Academic text (1993) -
Illusions hinder the progress of mental unfoldment.
Blog text (18) -
By following the principles laid down by Jesus during his short incarnation, people were given the key to the unfoldment of heart-centered consciousness.
Blog text (4) -
You are on the edge of a massive disruption to what you call normal life, which will be sensational in its unfoldment while inspiring and uplifting you.
Blog text (28) -
Or, to put it differently, from a subtle enfoldment in the whole, there arises, by a process of unfoldment, the entire manifest universe with its many different and separated objects.
Academic text (1993) -
After all, I can only claim my own identity by differentiating, although in doing so I'm obviously challenging the co-dependency that's been stifling my creative unfoldment.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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4.9
A process where something appears and becomes known or important
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4.8
The act of something hidden becoming known or seen
A slow change in events that becomes clearer over time
Making something that was hidden become known to people
Antonyms
How Revealed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfoldment comes from the parts un- 'undo or open', fold 'to bend or fold like paper', and -ment 'process'. So unfoldment is the process of opening out or being revealed, like a map or a flower slowly opening, which is why it means something gradually coming into view.