The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unfolding \Unfolding\
   See folding.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unfolding
    n 1: a developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum
         culture" [syn: unfolding, flowering]

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