image vs irony

image and irony both are nouns.

image is a verb but irony is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
image	Yes	No	Yes	No
irony	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, irony is a hyponym of image; that is, irony is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than image:

image: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
irony: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

Other hyponyms of image include conceit, exaggeration, hyperbole, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, simile, synecdoche, zeugma, hypotyposis.

image (noun)	irony (noun)
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface	incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)	a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world	witty language used to convey insults or scorn
the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
an iconic mental representation
a standard or typical example
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

image (verb)	irony (verb)
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
render visible, as by means of MRI

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