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Enlargement vs Maturation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between enlargement and maturation

is that enlargement is the act of making something larger while maturation is the process of becoming mature.

enlargement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of making something larger.
    • Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement .
  • (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
    • ‘’’1874 Thomas Hardy, ‘’Far From the Madding Crowd’’, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p337:
  • :* Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
  • An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.

    • maturation

    English

    Noun

  • The process of becoming mature
  • (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism

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