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iconography vs ikon

ikon vs iconography

iconography and ikon both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
iconography Yes No No No
ikon Yes No No No
As nouns, ikon is a hypernym of iconography; that is, ikon 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
  • ikon: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Other hypernyms of iconography include icon, image, picture.
iconography (noun) ikon (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
Difference between iconography and ikon

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