psychosexual development vs growing

psychosexual development and growing both are nouns.

psychosexual development is not an adjective while growing is an adjective.

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

As nouns, growing is a hypernym of psychosexual development; that is, growing 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
growing: (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 development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

psychosexual development (noun)	growing (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	(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
	(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

psychosexual development (adjective)	growing (adjective)
	relating to or suitable for growth

psychosexual development vs growing

psychosexual development and growing both are nouns.

psychosexual development is not an adjective while growing is an adjective.

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