continuation vs repetition

repetition vs continuation

continuation and repetition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
continuation	Yes	No	No	No
repetition	Yes	No	No	No

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

continuation: the act of continuing an activity without interruption
repetition: the act of doing or performing again

Other hyponyms of continuation include lengthening, perpetuation, prolongation, protraction, repeating, perseverance, perseveration, persistence, abidance, prosecution, pursuance, survival.

continuation (noun)	repetition (noun)
the act of continuing an activity without interruption	the act of doing or performing again
the consequence of being lengthened in duration	the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction	an event that repeats
a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it

Difference between continuation and repetition

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