Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun overgrowth

2 senses of overgrowth

Sense 1
giantism, gigantism, overgrowth -- (excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland)
       => hypertrophy -- (abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ)

Sense 2
overgrowth -- (a profusion of growth on or over something else)
       => profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia -- (the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English")