emergence

emergence
    n 1: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage
         the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: {emergence},
         {outgrowth}, {growth}]
    2: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
       emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow
       catkins" [syn: {emergence}, {egress}, {issue}]
    3: the act of emerging [syn: {emergence}, {emersion}]
    4: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn:
       {egress}, {egression}, {emergence}]
    

Emergence \E*mer"gence\, n.; pl. {Emergences}.
   The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from
   envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden
   uprisal or appearance.
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         The white color of all refracted light, at its very
         first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors.
                                                  --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
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         When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. --H.
                                                  Brooke.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "emergence":
      apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, break,
      breakout, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, deliverance,
      delivery, development, discharge, disclosure, emanation, emersion,
      emission, epiphany, escape, escapism, evasion, exposure,
      extrication, extrusion, flight, forthcoming, freeing, getaway,
      incarnation, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, liberation,
      manifestation, materialization, materializing, occurrence, opening,
      outlet, presentation, prisonbreak, realization, release, rescue,
      revelation, riddance, rise, rising, setting-free, showing,
      showing forth, surfacing, theophany, unfolding, unfoldment, vent