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palingenesis vs maturation

maturation vs palingenesis

palingenesis and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
palingenesis Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of palingenesis; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than palingenesis:
  • palingenesis: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
  • 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
Other hypernyms of palingenesis include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
palingenesis (noun) maturation (noun)
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species (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
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 palingenesis and maturation

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