psychosexual development vs growth

psychosexual development and growth both are nouns.

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

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

psychosexual development (noun)	growth (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	the gradual beginning or coming forth
	vegetation that has grown
	something grown or 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
	a progression from simpler to more complex forms
	a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
	(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

psychosexual development vs growth

psychosexual development and growth both are nouns.

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