foodstuff vs colouring

colouring vs foodstuff

foodstuff and colouring both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
foodstuff	Yes	No	No	No
colouring	Yes	No	No	No

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

foodstuff: a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
colouring: a digestible substance used to give color to food

Other hyponyms of foodstuff include starches, breadstuff, coloring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring, concentrate, meal, fiber, fibre, roughage, flour, frozen food, frozen foods, canned food, canned foods, canned goods, tinned goods, dehydrated food, dehydrated foods, carob, carob powder, Saint-John's-bread, tapioca, cocoa, cereal, food grain, grain, fixings, ingredient, egg, eggs, dairy product, milk, curd, concoction, intermixture, mixture, juice, perishable, spoilable, macerate.

foodstuff (noun)	colouring (noun)
(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer	the act or process of changing the color of something
a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food	a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
	a digestible substance used to give color to food

Difference between foodstuff and colouring

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