psychosexual development vs ontogeny

psychosexual development and ontogeny both are nouns.

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

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

psychosexual development (noun)	ontogeny (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

psychosexual development vs ontogeny

psychosexual development and ontogeny both are nouns.

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