arising

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of arise.

   Disputes arising from the contract will be settled by arbitration.

   Concerns arising during the inspection were logged immediately.

   Note

   The -ing form does double duty. As a participle it trails a noun, as in claims arising under an agreement. As a gerund it names the act itself. The trailing use, usually followed by from or under, is a fixture of contracts and formal reports. Once it takes a plural, arisings, it has crossed over into the noun of coming into being.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The process by which something comes into being; an origination or occurrence.

   The arising of fresh doubts complicated the negotiations.

   Meditators observe the arising of each thought without judgment.

   Similaremergence, appearance, occurrence, onset

   Oppositedisappearance, passing, cessation

   Note

   A word at home in Buddhist meditation writing, where it is paired with ceasing. Ledi Sayadaw's Manual of Insight (2017) speaks of discerning "the arising and ceasing of the four elements." In that usage it is countable, so arisings and ceasings can be listed side by side. Elsewhere it nearly always takes an of-phrase naming what arises: the arising of doubt, the arising of a thought.

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