Synonyms for maturation
Most common
growth growing ontogeny ontogenesis ripening maturement maturization
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Growth
2. Ripening
3. Festering
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The process of becoming mature.
- n. 2
The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.
- n. 3
The process of maturating, or suppurating fully.
Forms
- Plural
- maturations → growths, developments, ontogenies, growings…
Example sentences
- growth Women, then, are only children of a larger growth.
- growing The economy of the country kept growing for years.
- ontogeny Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
- ripening The rice is ripening. What type of rice is this?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| maturation | steady | |
| growth | steady | |
| growing | steady | |
| ontogeny | falling | |
| ontogenesis | falling | |
| ripening | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- growth1
- 7 letters
- growing2
- 8 letters
- ripening3, ontogeny4
- 9 letters
- festering3
- 10 letters
- maturement
- 11 letters
- development4, suppuration, ontogenesis
- 12 letters
- maturization
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (growing2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- maturation
- Italiano
- maturazione
- Deutsch
- Reifung