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Cultivation vs Growing - What's the difference?

cultivation | growing |

As nouns the difference between cultivation and growing

is that cultivation is the art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture while growing is growth; increase.

As a verb growing is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective growing is

that grows.

cultivation

English

Noun

  • The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture
    • The heavy cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion.
  • The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
    • ''These fields are in cultivation .
  • Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
    • His steadfast cultivation of their relationship finally bore fruit.
  • Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
    • She is a woman of great cultivation .

    Synonyms

    * (art or act of cultivating) tillage * (advancement or refinement in condition) refinement, culture; education

    Related terms

    * cultivar * cultivate, cultivator

    growing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • growth; increase
  • * 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West
    • Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That grows.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Connected with growing