characteristic vs passport

passport vs characteristic

characteristic and passport both are nouns.

characteristic is an adjective but passport is not an adjective.

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

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

characteristic: a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
passport: any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission

Other hyponyms of characteristic include recommendation, compatibility, incompatibility, point, spot, point, earmark, hallmark, stylemark, trademark, saving grace, aspect, safeness, dangerousness, curability, curableness, incurability, incurableness, directness, straightness, indirectness, robustness, ruralism, rurality, streak, invasiveness, noninvasiveness.

characteristic (noun)	passport (noun)
a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something	any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission
any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions	a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country
a prominent attribute or aspect of something	any authorization to pass or go somewhere
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)	passport (adjective)
typical or distinctive

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