Noun

(en noun)

(often, figuratively) The process by which something unfolds or becomes revealed.

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 28, author=Bruce Handy, title=Nothing You Can Know That Isnt Known, work=New York Times citation

, passage=If I had the space, I'd cite dozens more examples of Gould's graceful unfoldings of various Beatle tunes. }}

Noun

unfolding

*{{quote-book, year=1884, author=George Willis Cooke, title=George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Even the diverse elements, the minute side-studies and the profuse comments, are all woven into the organic structure, and are essential to the unfoldment of the plot. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Harry Leon Wilson, title=The Lions of the Lord, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Under the watchful care of Martha she flourished and was happy, her mother in little, a laughing whirlwind of tender flesh, tireless feet, dancing eyes, hair of sunlight that was darkening as she grew older, and a mind that seemed to him she called father a miracle of unfoldment . }}

*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=C.W. Leadbeater, title=A Textbook of Theosophy, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Every man has to become a perfect man, to unfold to the fullest degree the divine possibilities which lie latent within him, for that unfoldment is the object of the entire scheme so far as he is concerned. }}