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Fledgling vs Emerging - What's the difference?

fledgling | emerging |

As adjectives the difference between fledgling and emerging

is that fledgling is untried or inexperienced while emerging is becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.

As nouns the difference between fledgling and emerging

is that fledgling is (literally) a young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings) while emerging is emergence.

As a verb emerging is

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fledgling

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(-)
  • Untried or inexperienced.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (literally) A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
  • (figuratively) An immature, naïve and/or inexperienced person.

    • References

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    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