[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

unfolding \unfolding\
   see folding.
see also:
folding 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

unfolding
     n : a developmental process; "the flowering of ante-bellum
         culture" syn: flowering
see also:
flowering 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

109 moby thesaurus words for "unfolding":
   advancing, amplification, anthesis, apocalypse, apparition,
   appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, baring, bloom, blooming,
   blossom, blossoming, blow, blowing, bradytelic, coming,
   coming into being, coming-forth, demonstration, developing,
   development, dilation, disclosing, disclosure, discovering,
   discovery, display, efflorescence, elaboration, emergence,
   enactment, enlargement, epiphany, evolution, evolutional,
   evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolvement, evolving, exhibit,
   exhibition, expansion, expatiation, explication, expose,
   exposition, exposure, florescence, flowerage, flowering,
   forthcoming, full bloom, genetic, growth, horotelic, incarnation,
   issuance, laying bare, manifestation, materialization,
   materializing, maturational, maturative, maturing, occurrence,
   ontogenetic, opening, ostentation, patefaction, performance,
   phylogenetic, physiogenetic, presentation, presentment, production,
   progress, progressing, progression, projection, realization,
   removing the veil, representation, retrospective, revealing,
   revealment, revelation, rise, rising, show, showing, showing forth,
   showing up, showup, stripping, tachytelic, theophany, uncloaking,
   uncovering, unfoldment, unmasking, unrolling, unveiling,
   unwrapping, upgrowth, varnishing day, vernissage, working-out

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