upgrowth

English

Etymology

up- +‎ growth

Noun

upgrowth (plural upgrowths)

1. The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188:

     The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.

   • J. R. Green

     the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy

Translations

process or result of growing up

• Bulgarian: растеж (bg) m (rastež), развитие (bg) n (razvitie)
• French: croissance (fr) f, dévelopement m
• German: Wachstum (de) n