incubation vs infection

incubation and infection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
incubation	Yes	No	No	No
infection	Yes	No	No	No

incubation (noun)	infection (noun)
maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development	moral corruption or contamination
sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body	(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
(pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear	the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
	an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
	(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
	(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
	the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms