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recapitulation vs ontogenesis

ontogenesis vs recapitulation

recapitulation and ontogenesis both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
recapitulation Yes No No No
ontogenesis Yes No No No
As nouns, ontogenesis is a hypernym of recapitulation; that is, ontogenesis 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
  • ontogenesis: (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, maturation, ontogeny.
recapitulation (noun) ontogenesis (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
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
Difference between recapitulation and ontogenesis

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