suppression vs maturation

maturation vs suppression

suppression and maturation both are nouns.

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

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

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

suppression (noun)	maturation (noun)
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation	(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
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority	coming to full development; becoming mature
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires	(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
the failure to develop some part or organ

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