alteration vs death

death vs alteration

alteration and death both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
alteration	Yes	No	No	No
death	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, death is a hyponym of alteration; that is, death is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than alteration:

alteration: an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
death: the event of dying or departure from life

Other hyponyms of alteration include acceleration, deceleration, retardation, slowing, avulsion, break, mutation, sublimation, surprise, birth, nascence, nascency, nativity, breakup, detachment, separation, vagary, fluctuation, variation, conversion, decease, expiry, decrease, drop-off, lessening, destabilization, increase, easing, moderation, relief, deformation, transition, shift, transformation, transmutation, scintillation, sparkling, twinkle, play, shimmer, transmutation, damage, harm, impairment, development, revolution, chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation, sex change, loss of consciousness.

alteration (noun)	death (noun)
the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)	the act of killing
the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)	the event of dying or departure from life
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another	the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
	the absence of life or state of being dead
	a final state
	the time when something ends
	the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

Difference between alteration and death

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