emergence

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.

   “Some birds do indeed sing through the night of all we can remember, temperature gaugings at the site of our earliest emergence revealing that all was cool then”

2. (countable, uncountable)The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)An emergency.

   “In this dire emergence, the Marquis de Torcy, minister for foreign affairs, offered his services.”

   “I[…]had recourse to an English Merchant, Mr Gregory, long settled at Dunkirk, to whom, happily, I had been recommended, as to a person capable, in any emergence, to afford me assistance.”

4. (countable, uncountable)An outgrowth from the surface, such as a prickle or wart, differing from hairs in arising from more than the superficial cells, and from spines in arising from a few layers only.