Associations to the word «Maturation»

Wiktionary

MATURATION, noun. The process of becoming mature
MATURATION, noun. (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism

Dictionary definition

MATURATION, noun. Coming to full development; becoming mature.
MATURATION, noun. (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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children".
MATURATION, noun. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King