gestation vs construction

construction vs gestation

gestation and construction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gestation	Yes	No	No	No
construction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, construction is a hypernym of gestation; that is, construction is a word with a broader meaning than gestation:

gestation: the conception and development of an idea or plan
construction: the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought

Other hypernyms of gestation include mental synthesis.

gestation (noun)	construction (noun)
the conception and development of an idea or plan	the act of constructing something
the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)	drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
	a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
	the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
	an interpretation of a text or action
	a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

Difference between gestation and construction

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