maturations

Meanings

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
• plural of maturation

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

nondevelopment