artefact vs building material

building material vs artefact

artefact and building material both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
artefact	Yes	No	No	No
building material	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building material is a hyponym of artefact; that is, building material is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than artefact:

artefact: a man-made object taken as a whole
building material: material used for constructing buildings

Other hyponyms of artefact include article, facility, Americana, anachronism, antiquity, block, button, commodity, good, trade good, cone, covering, creation, decker, decoration, ornament, ornamentation, electroplate, excavation, duplicate, extra, cloth, fabric, material, textile, facility, installation, fixture, float, insert, inset, instrumentality, instrumentation, means, bed, layer, lemon, stinker, line, marker, mystification, opening, cushioning, padding, plaything, toy, ready-made, restoration, flat solid, sheet, sphere, square, squeaker, slip, strip, construction, structure, surface, thing, track, way, weight, pavement, paving, paving material.

artefact (noun)	building material (noun)
a man-made object taken as a whole	material used for constructing buildings

Difference between artefact and building material

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