authorship vs foundation

foundation vs authorship

authorship and foundation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
authorship	Yes	No	No	No
foundation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, foundation is a hypernym of authorship; that is, foundation is a word with a broader meaning than authorship:

authorship: the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
foundation: the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

Other hypernyms of authorship include creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination.

authorship (noun)	foundation (noun)
the act of creating written works	the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing	lowest support of a structure
	a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
	the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
	education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
	an institution supported by an endowment
	the basis on which something is grounded

Difference between authorship and foundation

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