widening vs growth

growth vs widening

widening and growth both are nouns.

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

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

widening: an increase in width
growth: a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

Other hypernyms of widening include increase, increment.

widening (noun)	growth (noun)
the act of making something wider	the gradual beginning or coming forth
a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park	vegetation that has grown
an increase in width	something grown or growing
	(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)

Difference between widening and growth

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