outgrowth

[ out-grohth ]

noun

1. a natural development, product, or result:

   to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.

2. an additional, supplementary result.
3. a growing out or forth.
4. something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.

outgrowth

/ ˈaʊtˌɡrəʊθ /

noun

1. a thing growing out of a main body
2. a development, result, or consequence
3. the act of growing out

Word History and Origins

Origin of outgrowth¹

First recorded in 1830–40; out- + growth

Example Sentences

The rise of the meme costume might be seen as an outgrowth of the trends that prevailed before it, except today the primary aspiration is attention.

From Los Angeles Times

The cheers were an outgrowth of the party’s efforts to reclaim the rhetoric of patriotism, couching its mix of economic and reproductive rights promises as a “freedom” agenda.

From Los Angeles Times

The effort to change the town’s name started in 2020 as an outgrowth of meetings among concerned county residents who went on to form the group Citizens for Healing.

From Los Angeles Times

As such, America’s democracy crisis not just about “politics” but an outgrowth/distillation of many other and deeper societal troubles.

From Salon

I think about those shame-centered questions, statements, and failed attempts at connection as the leaves on the tree, outgrowths of a story that we have repeated enough times that it has formed a formidable trunk.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• by-product
• offshoot