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recapitulation vs maturation

maturation vs recapitulation

recapitulation and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
recapitulation Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of recapitulation; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than recapitulation:
  • recapitulation: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
  • 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 recapitulation include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
recapitulation (noun) maturation (noun)
(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) (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 summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion coming to full development; becoming mature
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
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