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What is the difference between "emerging" and "emergent"?
Both emerging and emergent are adjectives related to the concept of emergence but, I think in some cases there is a slight difference.
EMERGING
Coming to maturity: emerging markets; the emerging states of Africa.
EMERGENT
Occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action: an emergent political leader.
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Perhaps it's just me, but I feel there is more of a sense of completion with "emergent".I don't feel a significant difference.
I don't know whether we are right, but I feel something like that. In my last post I wrote, " I don't feel a significant difference". I used the word significant because I was not sure about what I did feel. I think that you managed to express my vague feeling. You may not be right, but you are not wrong, in my opinion.Perhaps it's just me, but I feel there is more of a sense of completion with "emergent".
An emergent nation as a nation just newly emerged, rather than being in the process of emerging?
EDIT: It is just me, the dictionary says no.