modification vs sex change

sex change vs modification

modification and sex change both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
modification	Yes	No	No	No
sex change	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sex change is a hyponym of modification; that is, sex change is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than modification:

modification: an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
sex change: a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics (as by surgery and hormone treatments)

Other hyponyms of modification include acceleration, deceleration, retardation, slowing, avulsion, break, mutation, sublimation, surprise, birth, nascence, nascency, nativity, breakup, detachment, separation, vagary, fluctuation, variation, conversion, death, decease, expiry, decrease, drop-off, lessening, destabilization, increase, easing, moderation, relief, deformation, transition, shift, transformation, transmutation, scintillation, sparkling, twinkle, play, shimmer, transmutation, damage, harm, impairment, development, revolution, chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation, loss of consciousness.

modification (noun)	sex change (noun)
the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)	a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics (as by surgery and hormone treatments)
slightly modified copy; not an exact copy
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

Difference between modification and sex change

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