psychogenesis vs ontogenesis

psychogenesis and ontogenesis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ontogenesis is a hypernym of psychogenesis; that is, ontogenesis is a word with a broader meaning than psychogenesis:

psychogenesis: a general term for the origin and development of almost any aspect of the mind
ontogenesis: (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 psychogenesis include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogeny.

As nouns, ontogenesis is a hypernym of psychogenesis; that is, ontogenesis is a word with a broader meaning than psychogenesis:

psychogenesis: the development in the life of an individual of some disorder that is caused by psychological rather than physiological factors
ontogenesis: (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 psychogenesis include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogeny.

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