Synonyms of the word

growth

• n. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
• n. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
• n. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
• n. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

botany

• n. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve…
• n. The plant life of a geographical area.
• n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
• n. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular…

development

• n. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
• n. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is…
• n. (countable) Something which has developed.
• n. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real…
• n. (real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
• n. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
• n. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
• n. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.

emergence

• n. The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view;…
• n. In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.

evolution

• n. The process of accumulating change.
• n. A progression of change, often branching and diversifying in the process.
• n. (general) Gradual directional change especially one leading to a more advanced or complex form; growth;…
• n. (biology) The change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations.
• n. (chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
• n. (mathematics) The extraction of a root from a quantity.
• n. (military) One of a series of ordered movements.
• n. (dance, sports) A turning movement of the body.

flora

• n. plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. a book describing the plants of a country etc.
• n. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora.

growing

• v. present participle of grow.
• n. growth; increase.
• n. (attributive) Connected with growing.
• adj. That grows.

illness

• n. (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
• n. (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

increment

• n. The action of increasing or becoming greater.
• n. (heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
• n. The amount of increase.
• n. (rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

malady

• n. Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
• n. A moral or mental defect or disorder.

maturation

• n. The process of becoming mature.
• n. (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.

object

• n. A thing that has physical existence.
• n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
• n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
• n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
• n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
• n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
• n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
• v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

ontogenesis

• n. the arising or development of an individual organism.

ontogeny

• n. The development of an individual organism.

outgrowth

• n. Anything that grows out of something else.

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

sickness

• n. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
• n. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
• n. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common…

unwellness

• n. The state or characteristic of being unwell; a feeling of slight to moderate sickliness.

vegetation

• n. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
• n. (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth.
• n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.