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emergence

noun/əˈmərdʒəns/

something beginning to come out or happen

The emergence of instant messaging has shown how creative people can be through communicating using emojis.

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word origin — mid 17th century (in the sense ‘unforeseen occurrence’): from medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergere ‘bring to light’ (see emerge)