Emergent vs Crescive - What's the difference?
emergent | crescive |
(lb) Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction; constituting an emergency.
* 1918 , The Missionary Review of the World , volume 41, page 818:
Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
(botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
(botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
(video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
* 2008 , Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (page 126)
(botany) A plant whose root system grows underwater, but whose shoot, leaves and flowers grow up and above the water.
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(archaic) Increasing or growing. Marked by gradual spontaneous development.
As adjectives the difference between emergent and crescive
is that emergent is emerging (in the process of emerging) while crescive is (archaic) increasing or growing marked by gradual spontaneous development.As a verb emergent
is .emergent
English
(emergence)Adjective
(en adjective)- In all these great and vital things which America has discovered to be emergent necessities,
- In short, emergent games are ones that allow a huge range of possibilities and don't dictate a strict, linear flow of events. A strategy game is emergent because so many units can interact and have some effect on each other.
