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gestation has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for gestation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
the conception and development of an idea or plan