Incubation vs Gestation - What's the difference?
incubation | gestation |
Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
(pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
(chemistry) A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams.
* 1978 , Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine , Routledge 1978, p. 144:
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:
As nouns the difference between incubation and gestation
is that incubation is sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process while gestation is the period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.incubation
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Noun
(en noun)- Incubation in the vicinity of burial places, cremation grounds, holy wells and sacred streams was common. The ancient Hebrews visited vaults or slept among tombs to get meaningful dreams.
Derived terms
* incubation periodgestation
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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.