history vs knowledge

knowledge vs history

history and knowledge both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
history	Yes	No	No	No
knowledge	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, knowledge is a hypernym of history; that is, knowledge is a word with a broader meaning than history:

history: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
knowledge: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Other hypernyms of history include cognition, noesis.

history (noun)	knowledge (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
a record or narrative description of past events
the aggregate of past events
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

Difference between history and knowledge

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