maturation

Meanings

Plural: maturations

Noun

• coming to full development; becoming mature
• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
• (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
• The process of becoming mature.
• The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.
• The process of maturating, or suppurating fully.

Synonyms

development, festering, growing, growth, maturement, ontogenesis, ontogeny, ripening, suppuration

Antonyms

nondevelopment