Gestation vs Pregnance - What's the difference?
gestation | pregnance |
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 gestation and pregnance
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during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born while pregnance is obsolete form of pregnancy.gestation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.