element vs environment

environment vs element

element and environment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
element	Yes	No	No	No
environment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, environment is a hypernym of element; that is, environment is a word with a broader meaning than element:

element: the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
environment: the area in which something exists or lives

Other hypernyms of element include environs, surround, surroundings.

element (noun)	environment (noun)
an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system	the area in which something exists or lives
an abstract part of something	the totality of surrounding conditions
the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe

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