emergence.

1. The appearance or development of something that was not previously visible, known, or established.

2. The development of features through interactions among a system's parts, without those features belonging to each part on its own.

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Words that belong together

• emergence of a pattern
• emergence of a movement

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The emergence of a clear pattern changed the direction of the investigation.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.