epoch vs historic period

historic period vs epoch

epoch and historic period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
epoch	Yes	No	No	No
historic period	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, historic period is a hyponym of epoch; that is, historic period is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than epoch:

epoch: a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
historic period: an era of history having some distinctive feature

Other hyponyms of epoch include day, age, modern era.

epoch (noun)	historic period (noun)
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event	an era of history having some distinctive feature
a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

Difference between epoch and historic period

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