ontogeny vs psychomotor development

psychomotor development vs ontogeny

ontogeny and psychomotor development both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No
psychomotor development	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, psychomotor development is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, psychomotor development 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
psychomotor development: progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities

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, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	psychomotor 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	progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities

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