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icon vs iconography

iconography vs icon

icon and iconography both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
icon Yes No No No
iconography Yes No No No
As nouns, iconography is a hyponym of icon; that is, iconography is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than icon:
  • icon: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
  • iconography: the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
icon (noun) iconography (noun)
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
Difference between icon and iconography

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