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maturation vs psychosexual development

psychosexual development vs maturation

maturation and psychosexual development both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
maturation Yes No No No
psychosexual development Yes No No No
As nouns, psychosexual development is a hyponym of maturation; that is, psychosexual development is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than maturation:
  • maturation: (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
maturation (noun) psychosexual development (noun)
(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 (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
coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Difference between maturation and psychosexual development

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