lapse vs cease

lapse and cease both are nouns.

lapse and cease both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lapse	Yes	No	Yes	No
cease	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, cease is a hypernym of lapse; that is, cease is a word with a broader meaning than lapse:

lapse: end, at least for a long time
cease: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Other hypernyms of lapse include end, finish, stop, terminate.

lapse (noun)	cease (noun)
a mistake resulting from inattention	(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
a failure to maintain a higher state
a break or intermission in the occurrence of something

lapse (verb)	cease (verb)
go back to bad behavior	put an end to a state or an activity
drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
end, at least for a long time
for time to move forward
pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
let slip

Difference between lapse and cease

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