ontogeny vs psychogenesis

psychogenesis vs ontogeny

ontogeny and psychogenesis both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No
psychogenesis	Yes	No	No	No

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

ontogeny: (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
psychogenesis: a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind

Other hyponyms of ontogeny include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	psychogenesis (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	a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind
	the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors

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