cryptography vs encryption

cryptography and encryption both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cryptography	Yes	No	No	No
encryption	Yes	No	No	No

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

cryptography: act of writing in code or cipher
encryption: the activity of converting data or information into code

Other hyponyms of cryptography include encoding, recoding, decipherment, decoding, decryption.

cryptography (noun)	encryption (noun)
act of writing in code or cipher	the activity of converting data or information into code
the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms

cryptography vs encryption

cryptography and encryption both are nouns.

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