MEANING
1. The process of becoming fully developed physically, mentally, or emotionally.
2. Natural changes in study participants over time that can influence outcomes independently of an intervention.
3. The development of a market or industry into a stage of slower growth after its earlier expansion.
Use it for
describing development over time; distinguishing developmental change from a single learned response; analyzing the timing of physical or psychological developmentSeparates development toward maturity from time-related participant change and a market’s slower-growth stage. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- physical maturation
- emotional maturation
- the process of maturation
On the page
The study distinguishes physical maturation from improvements attributed to training.
The novel links the character’s emotional maturation to a changing understanding of responsibility.
The comparison group helps assess whether improvement reflects the intervention or maturation.
Fatigue during a long session may produce maturation-related changes unrelated to the treatment.
Market maturation shifted competition from attracting first-time buyers to retaining existing customers.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- maturation
Usage notes
Normally uncountable. Maturations is uncommon and used only for distinct developmental processes. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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