background vs co-occurrence

co-occurrence vs background

background and co-occurrence both are nouns.

background is a verb but co-occurrence is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
background	Yes	No	Yes	No
co-occurrence	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

Other hypernyms of background include accompaniment, attendant, concomitant.

background (noun)	co-occurrence (noun)
scenery hung at back of stage	the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear	an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
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 (verb)	co-occurrence (verb)
understate the importance or quality of

Difference between background and co-occurrence

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