environment vs background

background vs environment

environment and background both are nouns.

environment is not a verb while background is a verb.

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

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

environment: the totality of surrounding conditions
background: the state of the environment in which a situation exists

Other hyponyms of environment include circumstance, context, setting, ecology, scope, setting, home, milieu, surroundings, area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere, street.

environment (noun)	background (noun)
the area in which something exists or lives	scenery hung at back of stage
the totality of surrounding conditions	(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
	a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
	the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
	information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
	extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
	relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
	the state of the environment in which a situation exists

environment (verb)	background (verb)
	understate the importance or quality of

Difference between environment and background

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