centrepiece vs characteristic

characteristic vs centrepiece

centrepiece and characteristic both are nouns.

centrepiece is not an adjective while characteristic is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
centrepiece	Yes	No	No	No
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, characteristic is a hypernym of centrepiece; that is, characteristic is a word with a broader meaning than centrepiece:

centrepiece: the central or most important feature
characteristic: a prominent attribute or aspect of something

Other hypernyms of centrepiece include feature.

centrepiece (noun)	characteristic (noun)
something placed at the center of something else (as on a table)	a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
the central or most important feature	any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
	a prominent attribute or aspect of something
	the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

centrepiece (adjective)	characteristic (adjective)
	typical or distinctive

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