• Mergence

    Full definition of mergence

    Noun

    mergence

    (uncountable)
    1. The act of merging.
      • 1883, James Thomson, On the Development and Generic Relation of the Corals of the Carboniferous System of Scotland, ... and that by the possession of a central cell in some of the species there is indicated a mergence from Fasciculophyllum into the genus Centrocellulosum--a relationship which it is now my province to trace.
      • 2010, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Roots of Morality, In fact, in Lawrence's prose, we see clearly that there is not a mergence of two into one, but on the contrary, an existential distance that allows us to awaken both to the wonders of being alive and to our interconnectedness to the whole of Nature.
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