Synonyms for ripening
ripen·ing

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1. maturation, ripening, maturementnoun

   coming to full development; becoming mature

   Synonyms:
   suppuration, ontogenesis, ageing, growth, aging, growing, festering, ontogeny, maturation, maturement, development

2. ripening, aging, ageingnoun

   acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time

   Synonyms:
   ageing, maturation, aging, senescence, maturement

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1. • Organic Process

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1. List of paraphrases for "ripening":

   maturation, curing, maturing, maturity

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ripening

   Synonyms:
   See Cervical ripening
   

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1. Aristotle:

   Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow ripening fruit.

2. William Shakespeare:

   This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

3. Rainer Maria Rilke:

   There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

4. Aristotle:

   Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

5. Mariana Fulger:

   We are born to experience blossoming, ripening and wasting.