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maturation vs recapitulation

recapitulation vs maturation

maturation and recapitulation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
maturation Yes No No No
recapitulation Yes No No No
As nouns, recapitulation is a hyponym of maturation; that is, recapitulation 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
  • recapitulation: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
maturation (noun) recapitulation (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 (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
coming to full development; becoming mature a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
Difference between maturation and recapitulation

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