psychosexual development vs development

psychosexual development and development both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
psychosexual development	Yes	No	No	No
development	Yes	No	No	No

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

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
development: (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 psychosexual development include growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

psychosexual development (noun)	development (noun)
(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	act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
	the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
	(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
	a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
	a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
	processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
	(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
	a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
	a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

psychosexual development vs development

psychosexual development and development both are nouns.

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