suppression vs growth

growth vs suppression

suppression and growth both are nouns.

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

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

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

suppression (noun)	growth (noun)
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation	the gradual beginning or coming forth
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority	vegetation that has grown
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires	something grown or growing
the failure to develop some part or organ	(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)

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