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iconography vs icon

icon vs iconography

iconography and icon both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
iconography Yes No No No
icon Yes No No No
As nouns, icon is a hypernym of iconography; that is, icon is a word with a broader meaning than iconography:
  • iconography: the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
  • icon: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Other hypernyms of iconography include ikon, image, picture.
iconography (noun) icon (noun)
the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
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 iconography and icon

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