development vs elaboration

development and elaboration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
development	Yes	No	No	No
elaboration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, elaboration is a hyponym of development; that is, elaboration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than development:

development: act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
elaboration: developing in intricate and painstaking detail

Other hyponyms of development include advancement, progress, broadening, working out, product development.

development (noun)	elaboration (noun)
act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining	developing in intricate and painstaking detail
the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful	addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated	marked by elaborately complex detail
a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation	a discussion that provides additional information
a district that has been developed to serve some purpose	the result of improving something
processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
(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
a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

development vs elaboration

development and elaboration both are nouns.

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