outgrowth
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌɡroʊθ/
- As noted earlier, United Ambulance's CP pilot project was an outgrowth of their Home Visit Program.
- a natural outgrowth
- a direct outgrowth
- a logical outgrowth
So these are some outgrowths from that quick assignment that we did.
- So these are some outgrowths from that quick assignment that we did.
- And AIR, I think, thinks that mathematics is essentially an outgrowth of of logic.
- I mean, sadism is just a natural outgrowth of any kind of violence towards another.
- It's, I mean, the huge outgrowth of the holographic principle that you and it HOEF developed.
- When you're pregnant with what's going to be your creative outgrowth, you actually don't know what's going on there.
- So maybe it's Morningstar's publication now and it actually is an outgrowth of some academic research that he did decades ago.
- It's it's absurd to talk about this merely as a reactive force and an outgrowth in a response to our own actions and Israel's actions.
- Racial science is really an outgrowth of the Enlightenment like making racism obviously always existed, but it became scientific.
Examples
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The annual festival was the outgrowth of an old pagan religious ceremony.
Fiction book (1992) -
Attempts to measure the relationship are largely an outgrowth of more general studies of productivity in the U.S. economy.
Academic text (2000) -
Most of us look at the industrial age as this natural outgrowth of the need to do more and Better Business.
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Why was this agreement considered necessary, and how is it an outgrowth of the international economy?
Academic text (1996) -
And that is a direct outgrowth of how our party structure has evolved over time.
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Multicultural education is a creation and outgrowth of the Western cultural tradition.
Academic text (1997) -
Research for this essay was an outgrowth of her dissertation fieldwork experience.
Academic text (1996) -
Indeed, his work in ecumenism and interreligious dialogue is an outgrowth of the Church's engagement with the modern world at Vatican II.
Academic text (2015) -
Women writers in Japan often categorize their works as "I-novels," an outgrowth of the nikki bungaku.
Fiction book (1993) -
The rapid growth of technology is often viewed as an outgrowth of increased demand for efficiency.
Synonyms
A new group or idea that develops from an earlier one
A result that happens as a natural effect of something else
A smaller thing that starts from a larger project or plan
A later result that appears unexpectedly after an event
Antonyms
How Significant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word outgrowth comes from the parts out- ('out') and growth ('something that grows'), so you can think of it as a 'growth' that comes 'out' of something, and that's why an outgrowth often means a new result or development that comes from an earlier thing.