developmental stage
Maturation milestone marker
A developmental stage is a distinct phase in the growth or maturation of an organism, skill, or process.
In psychology and biology, developmental stages mark periods with characteristic features: the toddler stage, Piaget's stages of cognitive development.
The term applies broadly to anything that progresses through recognizable phases: The project is still in an early developmental stage.
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- infancyEarliest period of life
- baby stepsCautious incremental progress
- adulthoodState of being grown
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
formative years · growing pains · egg · seed · senescence · coming of age · moral reasoning · emotional regulation · language acquisition · chrysalis · molt · maturation · late bloomer · Piaget · metamorphosis · embryo · ontogeny · puberty
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- youthchild, adolescents, kid, coming-of-age, teenagers
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- growth assessmentheight, weight chart, height measurement, growth chart, growth charts
developmental stageregression
Return to former state
decline · deterioration · devolution · retrogression · backsliding
developmental stagestasis
State of inactivity
equilibrium · stagnation · plateau · steady state · permanence
developmental stagemaldevelopment
Abnormal tissue or organ formation