malady vs growth

growth vs malady

malady and growth both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of malady include condition, ague, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, catastrophic illness, collapse, prostration, aeroembolism, air embolism, bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder, lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism, disease, hypermotility, indisposition, ozone sickness, toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy.

malady (noun)	growth (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	the gradual beginning or coming forth
any unwholesome or desperate condition	vegetation that has grown
	something grown or growing
	(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)

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