category vs denomination

denomination vs category

category and denomination both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
category	Yes	No	No	No
denomination	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, denomination is a hyponym of category; that is, denomination is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than category:

category: a collection of things sharing a common attribute
denomination: a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money

Other hyponyms of category include grammatical category, syntactic category, paradigm, substitution class, brass family, violin family, woodwind family, stamp, sex, declension, conjugation, histocompatibility complex, weight class.

category (noun)	denomination (noun)
a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme	identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
a collection of things sharing a common attribute	a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
	a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money

Difference between category and denomination

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