suppression vs development

development vs suppression

suppression and development both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
suppression	Yes	No	No	No
development	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, development is a hypernym of suppression; that is, development is a word with a broader meaning than suppression:

suppression: the failure to develop some part or organ
development: (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 suppression include growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

suppression (noun)	development (noun)
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation	act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority	the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires	(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
the failure to develop some part or organ	a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
	a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
	processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
	(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 process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
	a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

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