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ontogeny vs psychosexual development

psychosexual development vs ontogeny

ontogeny and psychosexual development both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
ontogeny Yes No No No
psychosexual development Yes No No No
As nouns, psychosexual development is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, psychosexual 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
  • 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
ontogeny (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
Difference between ontogeny and psychosexual development

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