displacement vs replacement

replacement vs displacement

displacement and replacement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
displacement	Yes	No	No	No
replacement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, replacement is a hypernym of displacement; that is, replacement is a word with a broader meaning than displacement:

displacement: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
replacement: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another

Other hypernyms of displacement include replacing.

displacement (noun)	replacement (noun)
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics	the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
act of removing from office or employment	a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
the act of uniform movement	an event in which one thing is substituted for another
to move something from its natural environment	a person who follows next in order
an event in which something is displaced without rotation	someone who takes the place of another person
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one	filling again by supplying what has been used up
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

Difference between displacement and replacement

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