background vs concomitant

concomitant vs background

background and concomitant both are nouns.

background is not an adjective while concomitant is an adjective.

background is a verb but concomitant is not a verb.

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

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

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

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

background (noun)	concomitant (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
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 (adjective)	concomitant (adjective)
	occurring with or following as a consequence

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

Difference between background and concomitant

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