psychomotor development vs maturation

psychomotor development and maturation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of psychomotor development; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than psychomotor development:

psychomotor development: progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities
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 psychomotor development include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

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

psychomotor development vs maturation

psychomotor development and maturation both are nouns.

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