destruction vs obliteration

destruction and obliteration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
destruction	Yes	No	No	No
obliteration	Yes	No	No	No

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

destruction: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
obliteration: destruction by annihilating something

Other hyponyms of destruction include disaster, kill, laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining, wrecking, demolishing, leveling, razing, tearing down, annihilation, decimation, self-destruction, neutralisation, neutralization, sabotage, extermination, liquidation, holocaust, demolition, spoliation, hooliganism, malicious mischief, vandalism.

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

destruction: an event that completely destroys something
obliteration: the complete destruction of every trace of something

Other hyponyms of destruction include annihilation, disintegration, eradication, depredation, ravage, razing, wrecking, ruin, ruination, rack, wrack.

destruction (noun)	obliteration (noun)
the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists	destruction by annihilating something
an event that completely destroys something	the complete destruction of every trace of something
a final state

destruction vs obliteration

destruction and obliteration both are nouns.

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