Aging
Aging noun - The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age.
Maturation and aging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Maturation" instead a noun "Aging".
Maturation
Maturation noun - The process of becoming mature.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Differs from Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome in that there is an actual in-story explanation, regardless of its believability, for the rapid maturation of the character.
Source: Plot-Relevant Age-Up - Juvenat treatments retard aging, but do not affect maturation—thus, nobles, Inquisitors, and other important people can appear to be in their thirties or forties at two to three hundred years of age.
Source: Immortality Begins at 20
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