Growing vs Emerging - What's the difference?

growing | emerging |

As verbs the difference between growing and emerging

is that growing is while emerging is .

As nouns the difference between growing and emerging

is that growing is growth; increase while emerging is emergence.

As adjectives the difference between growing and emerging

is that growing is that grows while emerging is becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.

growing

English

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

growth; increase

* 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West

Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger.

Adjective

(-)

That grows.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.

Connected with growing

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