declension vs family

family vs declension

declension and family both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
declension	Yes	No	No	No
family	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, family is a hypernym of declension; that is, family is a word with a broader meaning than declension:

declension: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
family: a collection of things sharing a common attribute

Other hypernyms of declension include category, class.

declension (noun)	family (noun)
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms	primary social group; parents and children
a downward slope or bend	people descended from a common ancestor
process of changing to an inferior state	a social unit living together
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
	a collection of things sharing a common attribute
	an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
	a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
	a person having kinship with another or others

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