Gestation vs Conception - What's the difference?
gestation | conception |
The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
The process of development of a plan or idea.
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 149:
The act of conceiving.
The state of being conceived; the beginning.
The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
The start of pregnancy.
The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
As nouns the difference between gestation and conception
is that gestation is the period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born while conception is the act of conceiving.gestation
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation , just as I had been with his.
