growth vs sickness

sickness vs growth

growth and sickness both are nouns.

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

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

growth: (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
sickness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

Other hypernyms of growth include illness, malady, unwellness.

growth (noun)	sickness (noun)
the gradual beginning or coming forth	impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
vegetation that has grown	the state that precedes vomiting
something grown or growing	defectiveness or unsoundness
(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 progression from simpler to more complex forms
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

Difference between growth and sickness

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