characteristic vs centerpiece

centerpiece vs characteristic

characteristic and centerpiece both are nouns.

characteristic is an adjective but centerpiece is not an adjective.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of characteristic include sex character, sex characteristic, sexual characteristic, invariant, aspect, facet, attracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet, badge, centrepiece, contour, excellence, excellency, external, distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic, peculiarity, safety feature.

characteristic (noun)	centerpiece (noun)
a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something	something placed at the center of something else (as on a table)
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions	the central or most important feature
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

characteristic (adjective)	centerpiece (adjective)
typical or distinctive

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