emergent
C1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Denoting properties that arise from a system as a whole and are absent from its individual parts.
The coordinated swirl of a starling flock is an emergent behaviour that no single bird possesses.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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