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Emerging vs Disruptive - What's the difference?

emerging | disruptive |

As adjectives the difference between emerging and disruptive

is that emerging is becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising while disruptive is causing disruption or unrest.

As a verb emerging

is .

As a noun emerging

is emergence.

emerging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • emergence
  • * 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
    • We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district

    disruptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing disruption or unrest.
    • Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
  • Causing major change, as in a market.
  • * 2005 , Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide (page 222)
    • companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.