background vs heritage

heritage vs background

background and heritage both are nouns.

background is a verb but heritage is not a verb.

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

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

background: a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
heritage: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors

Other hypernyms of background include inheritance.

background (noun)	heritage (noun)
scenery hung at back of stage	hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear	any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
a person's social heritage: previous experience or training	practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground	that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
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)	heritage (verb)
understate the importance or quality of

Difference between background and heritage

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