background vs scene

background and scene both are nouns.

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

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

background: scenery hung at back of stage
scene: the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

Other hypernyms of background include scenery.

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

background: the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
scene: the visual percept of a region

Other hypernyms of background include aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista.

background (noun)	scene (noun)
scenery hung at back of stage	the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear	graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
a person's social heritage: previous experience or training	the visual percept of a region
the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground	a subdivision of an act of a play or performance
information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem	a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured	an incident (real or imaginary)
relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation	the place where some action occurs
the state of the environment in which a situation exists	the context and environment in which something is set
	a situation treated as an observable object
	a display of bad temper

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