gradualism

As nouns the difference between graduation and gradualism

is that graduation is the action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution) while gradualism is (label) the belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.

As a noun gradualism

is the belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.

As an adjective gradualistic is

of or pertaining to gradualism.