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Maturation vs Gestation - What's the difference?

maturation | gestation |

As nouns the difference between maturation and gestation

is that maturation is the process of becoming mature 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.

maturation

English

Noun

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

    • Anagrams

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    gestation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * pregnancy

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