obstruction vs construction

construction vs obstruction

obstruction and construction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
obstruction	Yes	No	No	No
construction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, construction is a hypernym of obstruction; that is, construction is a word with a broader meaning than obstruction:

obstruction: any structure that makes progress difficult
construction: a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

Other hypernyms of obstruction include structure.

obstruction (noun)	construction (noun)
getting in someone's way	the act of constructing something
the act of obstructing	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
any structure that makes progress difficult	drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted	a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction	the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
	an interpretation of a text or action
	a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

Difference between obstruction and construction

Words related to "construction"

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