different between development vs polysyllabism

English

First use 1756, analyzable as develop +? -ment, from French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”).

development (countable and uncountable, plural developments)

(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
(uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
(countable) Something which has developed.
(real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
(real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
(mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.

polysyllabism (usually uncountable, plural polysyllabisms)

(linguistics) The state or characteristic of having or using words containing multiple syllables, sometimes as a stage in the development of language.
- 1936, Martin Joos, "Book Review: The Psycho-Biology of Language by George K. Zipf," Language, vol. 12, no. 3 (July/Sep), p. 202,
  Chinese polysyllabism is a sort of synthesis, or aggregation, or 'addition' of morphemes and their meanings.
Polysyllabicism.
- 1867, William Dwight Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, Scribner, New York, p. 348,
  Cumbrous compounds are formed as the names of objects and a character of tedious and time-wasting polysyllabism is given to the language.

“polysyllabism” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

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