historic period vs antiquity

historic period and antiquity both are nouns.

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

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

historic period: an era of history having some distinctive feature
antiquity: the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

Other hyponyms of historic period include golden age, Jazz Age, reign, turn of the century, literary period.

historic period (noun)	antiquity (noun)
an era of history having some distinctive feature	an artifact surviving from the past
	extreme oldness
	the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

historic period vs antiquity

historic period and antiquity both are nouns.

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