development vs psychosexual development

development and psychosexual development both are nouns.

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

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

development: (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
psychosexual development: (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage

Other hyponyms of development include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

development (noun)	psychosexual development (noun)
act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining	(psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
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 psychosexual development

development and psychosexual development both are nouns.

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