background vs attendant

attendant vs background

background and attendant both are nouns.

background is not an adjective while attendant is an adjective.

background is a verb but attendant is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
background	Yes	No	Yes	No
attendant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, attendant is a hypernym of background; that is, attendant is a word with a broader meaning than background:

background: relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
attendant: an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

Other hypernyms of background include accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant.

background (noun)	attendant (noun)
scenery hung at back of stage	an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear	someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
a person's social heritage: previous experience or training	a person who is present and participates in a meeting
the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
the state of the environment in which a situation exists

background (adjective)	attendant (adjective)
	being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)
	occurring with or following as a consequence

background (verb)	attendant (verb)
understate the importance or quality of

Difference between background and attendant

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