emergent
pronunciation
How to pronounce emergent in British English:
UK [iˈmɜːdʒənt]
How to pronounce emergent in American English:
US [iˈmɜːrdʒənt]
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- Adjective:
- coming into existence
Word Origin
- emergent (adj.)
- late 14c., "rising from what surrounds it, coming into view," from Latin emergentem (nominative emergens), present participle of emergere "to rise out or up" (see emerge).
Example
- 1. They hope that the emergent cohort will rise from the ashes of an evangelicalism ruined by right-wing politics .
- 2. It was an exciting time because there was so much emergent literature , poetry , applied arts and film .
- 3. To put it in fancy terms , the crisis is an emergent condition - even more terrible than the sum of its parts .
- 4. Recently , an emergent discipline called " responsive architecture " has begun asking how physical spaces can respond to the presence of people passing through them .
- 5. An emergent african middle class is taking out mortgages and moving into newly built flats-and two children is what they want .