accession vs growth

growth vs accession

accession and growth both are nouns.

accession is a verb but growth is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
accession	Yes	No	Yes	No
growth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, growth is a hypernym of accession; that is, growth is a word with a broader meaning than accession:

accession: a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
growth: a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

Other hypernyms of accession include increase, increment.

accession (noun)	growth (noun)
the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)	the gradual beginning or coming forth
the right to enter	vegetation that has grown
agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)	something grown or growing
something added to what you already have	(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
(civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement	a progression from simpler to more complex forms
a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)	a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
	(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

accession (verb)	growth (verb)
make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library

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